Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce

Summary: Cheetah is a high-performance data warehouse on MapReduce/Hadoop. Virtual view over star/snowflake schemas enables a SQL-like language and an optimization stack with ~1 GB/s per node and seamless MapReduce integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9874f21323e02e6c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 9.5305061e-05
Overall Rank: 1,838 | 87.65%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921023

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Songting Chen (Turn Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chen_vldb10,
        title = {{Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce}},
        author = {Chen, Songting},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1459--1468},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921023},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921023},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
432	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018331051
2,176	Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment	2011	SIGMOD	8.9150466e-05
2,573	Minimal MapReduce Algorithms	2013	SIGMOD	8.2782871e-05
2,688	CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop	2011	VLDB	8.1262948e-05
2,903	Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce	2011	VLDB	7.877293e-05
5,278	Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants	2012	VLDB	6.1976381e-05
5,529	AQWA: Adaptive Query-Workload-Aware Partitioning of Big Spatial Data	2015	VLDB	6.0908508e-05
6,076	Exploiting Soft and Hard Correlations in Big Data Query Optimization	2016	VLDB	5.8918218e-05
6,424	A Hadoop Based Distributed Loading Approach to Parallel Data Warehouses	2011	SIGMOD	5.7873769e-05
6,769	Understanding Insights into the Basic Structure and Essential Issues of Table Placement Methods in Clusters	2013	VLDB	5.6847727e-05
7,365	Kodiak: Leveraging Materialized Views For Very Low-Latency Analytics Over High-Dimensional Web-Scale Data	2016	VLDB	5.5401198e-05
8,451	CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton	2013	SIGMOD	5.3324907e-05
8,631	Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop	2013	VLDB	5.298422e-05
9,266	Gobblin: Unifying Data Ingestion for Hadoop	2015	VLDB	5.2032182e-05
9,774	Overview of Turn Data Management Platform for Digital Advertising	2013	VLDB	5.1308835e-05
11,135	Dynamic Pruning for Recursive Joins	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
31	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00049821554
48	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043795812
61	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00039236924
75	Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters	2007	SIGMOD	0.0003702496
120	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00031099083
331	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002076806
651	Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience	2009	VLDB	0.00015123701
799	A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013882649
1,383	On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010842596
1,770	How to Wring a Table Dry: Entropy Compression of Relations and Querying of Compressed Relations	2006	VLDB	9.6822825e-05
3,249	On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases	2007	VLDB	7.4910929e-05

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