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MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data

Summary: MAD: Magnetic, Agile, Deep data analysis marks a radical shift from EDW/BI for big data. It presents data-parallel density methods and SQL/MapReduce-enabled workflows on Greenplum to enable agile analytics for advertising networks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hb488806ad54f3530
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00028524078
Overall Rank
154 | 98.97%
DOI
10.14778/1687553.1687576

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{cohen_vldb09,
        title = {{MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data}},
        author = {Cohen, Jeffrey and Dolan, Brian and Dunlap, Mark and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Welton, Caleb},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687576},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687576},
        year = {2009}
}

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23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055523999
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045453255
105 The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL 2012 VLDB 0.00033605348
436 Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018274105
506 Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017158546
544 ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning 2010 SIGMOD 0.00016584014
656 Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads 2014 SIGMOD 0.00015052106
677 Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing) 2010 VLDB 0.00014835154
825 MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce 2010 VLDB 0.00013600553
944 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00012927479
1,040 Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis 2011 VLDB 0.00012336829
1,072 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012143482
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1,786 ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing 2011 SIGMOD 9.6344047e-05
2,187 Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment 2011 SIGMOD 8.8889656e-05
2,250 Cumulon: Optimizing Statistical Data Analysis in the Cloud 2013 SIGMOD 8.7477605e-05
2,912 HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop 2014 SIGMOD 7.8573961e-05
3,042 Knowledge Expansion over Probabilistic Knowledge Bases 2014 SIGMOD 7.7063913e-05
3,104 On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML 2018 VLDB 7.6281929e-05
3,746 In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics 2018 VLDB 7.0369561e-05
3,799 Large-Scale Machine Learning at Twitter 2012 SIGMOD 6.9933489e-05
3,805 All-in-One: Graph Processing in RDBMSs Revisited 2017 SIGMOD 6.99039e-05
3,929 Efficient and Portable Einstein Summation in SQL 2023 SIGMOD 6.9013754e-05
4,134 Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning 2015 SIGMOD 6.7721426e-05
4,993 GLADE: Big Data Analytics Made Easy 2012 SIGMOD 6.3109925e-05
5,394 PREDIcT: Towards Predicting the Runtime of Large Scale Iterative Analytics 2013 VLDB 6.1351004e-05
5,664 Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce 2012 VLDB 6.0293278e-05
5,813 MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database 2010 VLDB 5.9684976e-05
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6,413 Functional-Style SQL UDFs With a Capital 'F' 2020 SIGMOD 5.7764365e-05
6,654 Coresets over Multiple Tables for Feature-rich and Data-efficient Machine Learning 2023 VLDB 5.7038474e-05
6,726 Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, and More: Is SQL All You Need? 2022 CIDR 5.6824602e-05
7,278 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 5.5511396e-05
7,320 CleanM: An Optimizable Query Language for Unified Scale-Out Data Cleaning 2017 VLDB 5.5401823e-05
7,398 Online Expansion of Large-scale Data Warehouses 2011 VLDB 5.5188253e-05
7,860 ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data 2021 SIGMOD 5.422643e-05
8,620 Not Black-Box Anymore! Enabling Analytics-Aware Optimizations in Teradata Vantage 2021 VLDB 5.2868261e-05
8,627 UDA-GIST: An In-database Framework to Unify Data-Parallel and State-Parallel Analytics 2015 VLDB 5.2850166e-05
9,571 GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example 2023 SIGMOD 5.1430298e-05
9,793 Storing Matrices on Disk: Theory and Practice Revisited 2011 VLDB 5.115551e-05
9,826 BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins 2017 VLDB 5.1083104e-05
9,842 CatDB: Data-catalog-guided, LLM-based Generation of Data-centric ML Pipelines 2025 VLDB 5.1064323e-05
9,985 On Efficient Large Sparse Matrix Chain Multiplication 2024 SIGMOD 5.0849662e-05
10,340 Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems 2025 SIGMOD 5.0210286e-05
10,996 Benchmarking Native In-Database TPCx-AI at 100 Terabytes in Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse: An Eight-Use-Case Study of Classical and Statistical ML on Relational Primitives 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
9 Online Aggregation 1997 SIGMOD 0.00076079812
12 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00068985264
93 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.00034518001
469 Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00017702382
888 Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB 2009 CIDR 0.00013213294
1,020 Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012423876
1,050 RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL 2009 CIDR 0.00012291671
1,166 A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System 2009 CIDR 0.00011705174
3,333 ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment 1996 VLDB 7.4040244e-05
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