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Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing

Summary: Slalom adaptively partitions raw files and builds lightweight, partition-specific indexes online by monitoring shifting query access patterns. Its in-situ engine cuts cumulative workload time and memory use, achieving 3–10× gains over prior systems and near-DBMS latency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
habf1f82d71e3e0d4
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
7.2673968e-05
Overall Rank
3,456 | 76.84%
DOI
10.14778/3115404.3115410
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BibTeX Citation

@article{olma_vldb17,
        title = {{Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing}},
        author = {Olma, Matthaios and Karpathiotakis, Manos and Alagiannis, Ioannis and Athanassoulis, Manos and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1106--1117},
        doi = {10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        year = {2017}
}

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49 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00043085722
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189 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025846085
196 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025581936
216 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00024446892
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023037921
327 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00020904249
431 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018411252
493 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001735831
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1,696 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8272691e-05
1,763 Split Query Processing in Polybase 2013 SIGMOD 9.693414e-05
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1,937 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.3333463e-05
1,942 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.3133693e-05
2,342 Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading 2014 SIGMOD 8.5978326e-05
2,392 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5172189e-05
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3,510 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2263115e-05
3,890 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.926806e-05
4,789 UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing 2016 SIGMOD 6.4016324e-05
4,897 Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods 2016 SIGMOD 6.3489205e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
6,293 Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa 2015 CIDR 5.8045404e-05
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