Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data

Summary: Zed makes data types first-class in both the data model and query language to enable ingesting, querying, and reasoning over eclectic data with heterogeneous, evolving schemas. By centering types it aims to avoid the usual efficiency–simplicity tradeoff of relational/document/hybrid systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hbaadc43cb426eaee
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.0064651e-05
Overall Rank: 10,369 | 30.50%
DOI: -
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Amy Ousterhout (University of California Berkeley)
2. Steve McCanne (Brim Data)
3. Henri Dubois-Ferriere (12th Ave Labs)
4. Silvery Fu (University of California Berkeley)
5. Sylvia Ratnasamy (University of California Berkeley)
6. Noah Treuhaft (Brim Data)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ousterhout_cidr23,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '23},
        title = {{Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Ousterhout, Amy and McCanne, Steve and Dubois-Ferriere, Henri and Fu, Silvery and Ratnasamy, Sylvia and Treuhaft, Noah},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,903	ReSequel: Robust LLM-assisted Query Rewriting and Optimization using Templatization and Sampling	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068985264
49	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00043085722
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041439488
232	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.00023776373
332	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.00020739447
462	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017825062
923	AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS	2014	VLDB	0.00013034457
955	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics	2021	CIDR	0.00012856295
972	The Data Civilizer System	2017	CIDR	0.00012742827
1,188	Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011580449
1,383	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010826996
1,580	SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00010153792
1,845	Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture	2011	CIDR	9.507323e-05
1,971	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.2747983e-05
2,356	Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser	2018	VLDB	8.5715425e-05
2,446	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.4392802e-05
2,477	One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results	2007	CIDR	8.392837e-05
3,260	Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data	2006	VLDB	7.4717337e-05
3,271	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.4609627e-05
3,731	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.0445622e-05
4,111	Automatic Generation of Normalized Relational Schemas from Nested Key-Value Data	2016	SIGMOD	6.7891131e-05
5,004	Living in Parallel Realities – Co-Existing Schema Versions with a Bidirectional Database Evolution Language	2017	SIGMOD	6.3065951e-05
5,867	An LSM-based Tuple Compaction Framework for Apache AsterixDB	2020	VLDB	5.9486081e-05
7,479	Closing the functional and Performance Gap between SQL and NoSQL	2016	SIGMOD	5.5015337e-05
8,817	Extending Relational Query Optimization to Dynamic Schemas for Information Integration in Multidatabases	2007	SIGMOD	5.2565446e-05
9,384	Management of Flexible Schema Data in RDBMSs - Opportunities and Limitations for NoSQL	2015	CIDR	5.1701116e-05
10,216	Adaptive Schema Databases	2017	CIDR	5.0468526e-05

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