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Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis

Summary: Jaql: declarative scripting for large-scale semistructured data on Hadoop MapReduce. JSON-like flexible model with schema-on-read; higher-order functions and reusable modules; varying abstraction with compiler rewrites for parallel execution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
habb4aed386ff2088
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00012336829
Overall Rank
1,040 | 93.04%
DOI
10.14778/3402755.3402768

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{beyer_vldb11,
        title = {{Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis}},
        author = {Beyer, Kevin S. and Eltabakh, Mohamed and Ercegovac, Vuk and Gemulla, Rainer and Kanne, Carl-Christian and Ozcan, Fatma and Balmin, Andrey and Shekita, Eugene J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1272--1283},
        doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402768},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402768},
        year = {2011}
}

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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
31 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00049707539
55 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00040385073
154 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00028524078
1,195 Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal 1999 SIGMOD 0.00011549748
1,289 SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions 2009 VLDB 0.0001116552
1,375 Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop 2010 SIGMOD 0.00010861932
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