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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
7.2911896e-05
Overall Rank
3,445 | 76.85%
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 0.0004314366
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187 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025914764
195 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025619089
216 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00024485637
252 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023101361
327 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00020942751
431 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018400856
492 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00017406029
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1,531 Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure 2013 SIGMOD 0.00010344951
1,693 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8522869e-05
1,752 Split Query Processing in Polybase 2013 SIGMOD 9.7246277e-05
1,837 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5315292e-05
1,927 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.362697e-05
1,933 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.3430609e-05
2,331 Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading 2014 SIGMOD 8.6253336e-05
2,384 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.5401256e-05
2,423 Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats 2014 SIGMOD 8.4851588e-05
3,071 Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data 2014 VLDB 7.6789108e-05
3,505 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2474175e-05
3,879 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.9481594e-05
4,771 UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing 2016 SIGMOD 6.4223645e-05
4,875 Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods 2016 SIGMOD 6.3699172e-05
5,134 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2573427e-05
6,281 Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa 2015 CIDR 5.8236382e-05
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