Can the Elephants Handle the NoSQL Onslaught?
Summary: Empirical comparison of two NoSQL systems, document-store and big-data analytics, against SQL Server on DSS and interactive data-serving workloads. Reveals performance and scalability tradeoffs, with insights and trends for data management's future. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Avrilia Floratou (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Nikhil Teletia (Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab)
- 3. David J. DeWitt (Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab)
- 4. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
- 5. Donghui Zhang (Paradigm4)
BibTeX Citation
@article{floratou_vldb12,
title = {{Can the Elephants Handle the NoSQL Onslaught?}},
author = {Floratou, Avrilia and Teletia, Nikhil and DeWitt, David J. and Patel, Jignesh M. and Zhang, Donghui},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {12},
pages = {1712--1723},
doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367517},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367517},
year = {2012}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,649 | BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions | 2013 | CIDR | 9.9836772e-05 |
| 1,884 | SQL-on-Hadoop: Full Circle Back to Shared-Nothing Database Architectures | 2014 | VLDB | 9.4388097e-05 |
| 9,636 | Monopedia: Staying Single is Good Enough - The HyPer Way for Web Scale Applications | 2017 | VLDB | 5.1463735e-05 |
| 11,133 | Scalable Execution of Application Logic within Everest BusinessStore | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00045546775 |
| 2,687 | CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop | 2011 | VLDB | 8.1301312e-05 |
| 2,903 | Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce | 2011 | VLDB | 7.8810111e-05 |
| 6,322 | Clydesdale: Structured Data Processing on Hadoop | 2012 | SIGMOD | 5.8148318e-05 |
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