Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language

Summary: Dryad and DryadLINQ offer a general-purpose, data-parallel engine with a strongly typed .NET object model. It auto-translates LINQ programs into distributed execution plans on Dryad, enabling scalable data processing beyond SQL/MapReduce. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h907ef54a9320ba08
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.5659163e-05
Overall Rank: 1,814 | 87.85%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559962

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Isard (Microsoft)
2. Yuan Yu (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{isard_sigmod09,
        title = {{Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language}},
        author = {Isard, Michael and Yu, Yuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559962},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559962},
        year = {2009}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055523999
436	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018274105
2,421	epiC: an Extensible and Scalable System for Processing Big Data	2014	VLDB	8.4793059e-05
2,992	StatusQuo: Making Familiar Abstractions Perform Using Program Analysis	2013	CIDR	7.7605188e-05
4,993	GLADE: Big Data Analytics Made Easy	2012	SIGMOD	6.3109925e-05
8,650	Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop	2013	VLDB	5.2809021e-05
9,316	AT-GIS: Highly Parallel Spatial Query Processing with Associative Transducers	2016	SIGMOD	5.1836101e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010494385
30	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00050364918
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034518001
4,721	Parallel SQL Execution in Oracle 10g	2004	SIGMOD	6.4349974e-05

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