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Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark

Summary: BigDatalog enables concise declarative Datalog queries for large-scale analytics on Spark. It uses compilation and optimization to efficiently support recursion on Spark, with empirical comparisons against top Datalog systems showing Spark-based analytics viable. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hef9214a62ff7e7d3
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.1965216e-05
Overall Rank
2,635 | 82.29%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2915229

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shkapsky_sigmod16,
        title = {{Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark}},
        author = {Shkapsky, Alexander and Yang, Mohan and Interlandi, Matteo and Chiu, Hsuan and Condie, Tyson and Zaniolo, Carlo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915229},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915229},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,938 RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark 2019 SIGMOD 7.8355984e-05
3,798 All-in-One: Graph Processing in RDBMSs Revisited 2017 SIGMOD 7.0161889e-05
3,953 Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing 2021 VLDB 6.9027109e-05
4,400 Shared Arrangements: practical inter-query sharing for streaming dataflows 2020 VLDB 6.6151947e-05
5,050 On the Optimization of Recursive Relational Queries: Application to Graph Queries 2020 SIGMOD 6.2976106e-05
5,067 Datalog Unchained 2021 PODS 6.2898972e-05
5,867 Scaling-Up In-Memory Datalog Processing: Observations and Techniques 2019 VLDB 5.9649467e-05
6,309 Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing 2020 SIGMOD 5.8176815e-05
6,332 Complete Event Trend Detection in High-Rate Event Streams 2017 SIGMOD 5.8116583e-05
7,139 Optimizing Recursive Queries with Program Synthesis 2022 SIGMOD 5.6006128e-05
8,356 Optimizing Nested Recursive Queries 2024 SIGMOD 5.3481891e-05
8,485 Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale 2019 SIGMOD 5.3326349e-05
9,018 Optimizing Parallel Recursive Datalog Evaluation on Multicore Machines 2022 SIGMOD 5.2365938e-05
9,116 Automatic Index Selection for Large-Scale Datalog Computation 2019 VLDB 5.2270261e-05
9,659 Parallel Query Processing: To Separate Communication from Computation 2022 SIGMOD 5.1453267e-05
10,149 Datalog with First-Class Facts 2025 VLDB 5.0715586e-05
10,196 Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 5.0623376e-05
10,334 Efficient Enumeration of Recursive Plans in Transformation-based Query Optimizers 2024 VLDB 5.0254535e-05
10,884 FlowLog: Efficient and Extensible Datalog via Incrementality 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,126 Dynamic Pruning for Recursive Joins 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,654 The Vadalog Parallel System: Distributed Reasoning with Datalog+/- 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,676 Templating Shuffles 2023 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,848 Juggler: Autonomous Cost Optimization and Performance Prediction of Big Data Applications 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing 2010 SIGMOD 0.0012092602
22 Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 0.00055962491
23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055406774
31 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00049839909
349 A Message Passing Framework for Logical Query Evaluation 1986 SIGMOD 0.00020255174
651 Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience 2009 VLDB 0.00015130782
1,000 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012607089
1,548 Distributed SociaLite: A Datalog-Based Language for Large-Scale Graph Analysis 2013 VLDB 0.00010290306
1,630 Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking 2011 PODS 0.00010033547
2,227 Spinning Fast Iterative Data Flows 2012 VLDB 8.8021772e-05
2,293 A Framework for the Parallel Processing of Datalog Queries 1990 SIGMOD 8.6840245e-05
2,480 REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation 2012 VLDB 8.4035081e-05
3,136 A New Paradigm For Parallel And Distributed Rule-Processing 1990 SIGMOD 7.6080212e-05
3,141 Evita Raced: Metacompilation for Declarative Networks 2008 VLDB 7.5995107e-05
4,076 Monotonic Aggregation in Deductive Databases 1992 PODS 6.8187173e-05
4,154 Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Recursive Datalog Evaluation in Shared-Nothing Engines 2015 VLDB 6.776227e-05
4,205 Distributed Processing Of Logic Programs 1988 SIGMOD 6.735459e-05
4,556 Why A Single Parallelization Strategy Is Not Enough In Knowledge Bases 1989 PODS 6.5378593e-05
4,833 Graph Queries in a Next-Generation Datalog System 2013 VLDB 6.388608e-05
5,962 Parallelizing Datalog Programs by Generalized Pivoting 1991 PODS 5.9331349e-05
9,402 Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog 2015 SIGMOD 5.1842615e-05
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