VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer
Summary: VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer, a query monitoring tool for analytic workloads. It presents high-volume metrics across multi-granularity views, identifies runtime bottlenecks, and suggests corrective actions; supports a research platform, demonstrated on TPC-DS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Alkis Simitsis (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 2. Kevin Wilkinson (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 3. Jason Blais (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 4. Joe Walsh (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{simitsis_sigmod14,
title = {{VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer}},
author = {Simitsis, Alkis and Wilkinson, Kevin and Blais, Jason and Walsh, Joe},
series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2588555.2594531},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2594531},
year = {2014}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,186 | QE3D: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Complex, Distributed Query Plans | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.8581144e-05 |
| 11,171 | VQLens: A Demonstration of Vector Query Execution Analysis | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,130 | Automated Performance Management for the Big Data Stack | 2019 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,360 | JexLog: A Sonar for the Abyss | 2016 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,550 | Stethoscope: A Platform for Interactive Visual Analysis of Query Execution Plans | 2012 | VLDB | 7.2119258e-05 |
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