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An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows

Summary: A compilation architecture for UDF-centric analytics workflows, jointly exploiting data, UDF, and hardware properties to generate specialized code. Implemented in Tupleware, it delivers up to 1000× speedups over existing systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h7e3165f3de77278f
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.0001063181
Overall Rank
1,444 | 90.30%
DOI
10.14778/2824032.2824045

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BibTeX Citation

@article{crotty_vldb15,
        title = {{An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows}},
        author = {Crotty, Andrew and Galakatos, Alex and Dursun, Kayhan and Kraska, Tim and Binnig, Carsten and Cetintemel, Ugur and Zdonik, Stan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1466--1477},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824045},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824045},
        year = {2015}
}

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