Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters

Summary: Targets analytics on small clusters (few–dozen nodes) with compute‑intensive, sub‑petabyte workloads rather than cloud‑scale. Compiles workflows of UDFs using database+compiler techniques into highly optimized distributed programs, reporting up to 1000× speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: haf5ef1fb2a318260
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.9729383e-05
Overall Rank: 2,139 | 85.67%
DOI: -
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Authors

1. Andrew Crotty (Brown University)
2. Alex Galakatos (Brown University)
3. Kayhan Dursun (Brown University)
4. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
5. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
6. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{crotty_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Crotty, Andrew and Galakatos, Alex and Dursun, Kayhan and Kraska, Tim and Cetintemel, Ugur and Zdonik, Stan},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,756	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7053947e-05
2,108	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.0229444e-05
3,104	On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML	2018	VLDB	7.6281929e-05
4,134	Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2015	SIGMOD	6.7721426e-05
5,642	Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.0370517e-05
5,787	Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities	2021	VLDB	5.9768075e-05
5,935	Self-Organizing Data Containers	2022	CIDR	5.9251217e-05
6,456	Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation	2020	SIGMOD	5.7616575e-05
6,645	What Makes a Good Physical Plan? — Experiencing Hardware-Conscious Query Optimization with Candomble	2016	SIGMOD	5.7054395e-05
7,405	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.5172664e-05
7,887	Building Advanced SQL Analytics From Low-Level Plan Operators	2021	SIGMOD	5.4162508e-05
9,512	Query Compilation Without Regrets	2024	SIGMOD	5.1515819e-05
9,729	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1202393e-05
9,785	PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development	2018	SIGMOD	5.115551e-05
10,212	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	5.0490854e-05
11,236	UDFBench: A Tool for Benchmarking UDF Queries on SQL Engines	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,311	Demonstrating the BigDAWG Polystore System for Ocean Metagenomic Analysis	2017	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,489	Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship	2015	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068985264
30	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00050364918
385	HaLoop: Efficient Iterative Data Processing on Large Clusters	2010	VLDB	0.00019419661
498	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017323427
766	Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory	2002	PODS	0.00014105436
876	Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00013272245
1,074	Interactive Analytical Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads	2012	VLDB	0.00012131641
1,169	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011690039
4,721	Parallel SQL Execution in Oracle 10g	2004	SIGMOD	6.4349974e-05
4,903	ASTERIX: An Open Source System for "Big Data" Management and Analysis (Demo)	2012	VLDB	6.3480568e-05
5,316	Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System	1979	SIGMOD	6.168031e-05

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