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Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Summary: HAIL extends HDFS upload to build per-block clustered indexes on every replica, enabling fast selective MapReduce access. Aggressive indexing yields up to 60% faster uploads (default three replicas) and up to 68x faster MapReduce queries, demonstrated across six large clusters. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hcab529843ea55709
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
6.1976381e-05
Overall Rank
5,278 | 64.53%
DOI
10.14778/2350229.2350267

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BibTeX Citation

@article{dittrich_vldb12,
        title = {{Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants}},
        author = {Dittrich, Jens and Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo and Richter, Stefan and Schuh, Stefan and Jindal, Alekh and Schad, Jörg},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1591--1602},
        doi = {10.14778/2350229.2350267},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2350229.2350267},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

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1,933 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.3430609e-05
3,068 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.6841028e-05
8,164 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 5.3850352e-05
8,177 Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index 2014 VLDB 5.3818353e-05
8,451 CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton 2013 SIGMOD 5.3324907e-05
8,519 WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages 2013 CIDR 5.3228159e-05
9,699 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1375205e-05
12,565 Mosquito: Another One Bites the Data Upload STream 2013 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.0004552807
48 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043795812
68 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037957995
492 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00017406029
675 Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing) 2010 VLDB 0.00014880686
754 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00014231311
799 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013882649
823 MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce 2010 VLDB 0.00013642066
892 Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance 2010 VLDB 0.00013221727
1,282 Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00011208192
1,466 The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study 2010 VLDB 0.00010565007
1,815 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 9.5756946e-05
1,838 Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce 2010 VLDB 9.5305061e-05
1,927 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.362697e-05
2,231 Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure at Facebook 2010 SIGMOD 8.7958881e-05
2,688 CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop 2011 VLDB 8.1262948e-05
2,856 Constrained Physical Design Tuning 2008 VLDB 7.934373e-05
2,903 Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce 2011 VLDB 7.877293e-05
3,158 Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters 2010 VLDB 7.5798726e-05
9,773 A Framework for Supporting DBMS-like Indexes in the Cloud 2011 VLDB 5.1319322e-05
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