The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems

Summary: Proposes Ermac, a declarative Data Visualization Management System that compiles end-to-end visualization workflows into relational algebra, unifying database and rendering layers. Enables lineage-driven interaction and semantic optimizations—occlusion filtering, viewport-aware downsampling, and hybrid rendering—for massive interactive datasets. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: ha4d7730df3415b51
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 6.240722e-05
Overall Rank: 5,180 | 65.18%
DOI: 10.14778/2732951.2732964

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eugene Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Leilani Battle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Samuel R. Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wu_vldb14,
        title = {{The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems}},
        author = {Wu, Eugene and Battle, Leilani and Madden, Samuel R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        pages = {903},
        doi = {10.14778/2732951.2732964},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732951.2732964},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,215	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011492648
3,984	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.8741188e-05
4,024	CLAMShell: Speeding up Crowds for Low-latency Data Labeling	2016	VLDB	6.8472018e-05
6,461	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.7768622e-05
6,647	Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System	2017	CIDR	5.7217042e-05
6,875	Towards Democratizing Relational Data Visualization	2019	SIGMOD	5.6589849e-05
12,426	A Demonstration of HadoopViz: An Extensible MapReduce System for Visualizing Big Spatial Data	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023947656
189	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.00025840026
378	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019549382
1,498	Advanced Query Processing in Object Bases Using Access Support Relations	1990	VLDB	0.00010472681
1,587	Estimating Progress of Execution for SQL Queries	2004	SIGMOD	0.0001014156
1,948	VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics	2012	SIGMOD	9.3212031e-05
2,402	i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes	2000	SIGMOD	8.5189151e-05
2,949	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.821181e-05
3,283	An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau	2011	SIGMOD	7.4562243e-05
5,454	SeeDB: Visualizing Database Queries Efficiently	2014	VLDB	6.1240062e-05

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