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: 9.0060385e-05
Overall Rank: 2,123 | 85.73%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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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1,473	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	0.00010557973
1,742	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7378418e-05
2,096	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.0550231e-05
3,101	On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML	2018	VLDB	7.649219e-05
4,116	Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2015	SIGMOD	6.7961306e-05
5,639	Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.0558642e-05
5,771	Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities	2021	VLDB	5.9992698e-05
5,929	Self-Organizing Data Containers	2022	CIDR	5.9439349e-05
6,441	Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation	2020	SIGMOD	5.7834762e-05
6,630	What Makes a Good Physical Plan? — Experiencing Hardware-Conscious Query Optimization with Candomble	2016	SIGMOD	5.7270789e-05
7,386	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.538189e-05
7,866	Building Advanced SQL Analytics From Low-Level Plan Operators	2021	SIGMOD	5.4365876e-05
9,472	Query Compilation Without Regrets	2024	SIGMOD	5.1711207e-05
9,694	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1396592e-05
9,748	PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development	2018	SIGMOD	5.1349531e-05
10,174	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	5.0681899e-05
11,168	UDFBench: A Tool for Benchmarking UDF Queries on SQL Engines	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,262	Demonstrating the BigDAWG Polystore System for Ocean Metagenomic Analysis	2017	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,440	Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship	2015	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068998927
30	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00050495102
384	HaLoop: Efficient Iterative Data Processing on Large Clusters	2010	VLDB	0.0001948031
495	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017370758
761	Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory	2002	PODS	0.00014143602
876	Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00013309176
1,072	Interactive Analytical Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads	2012	VLDB	0.00012168947
1,167	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011729888
4,708	Parallel SQL Execution in Oracle 10g	2004	SIGMOD	6.4582128e-05
4,878	ASTERIX: An Open Source System for "Big Data" Management and Analysis (Demo)	2012	VLDB	6.3718961e-05
5,296	Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System	1979	SIGMOD	6.1911718e-05

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