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NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

Summary: NoDB enables in-situ querying of raw data, avoiding loading by making raw files first-class in the engine. Adaptive indexing with caching cuts parsing and type-conversion costs; PostgresRaw delivers load-free queries with strong PostgreSQL performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hfb6b03d7f720ab0c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00012143482
Overall Rank
1,072 | 92.82%
DOI
10.1145/2213836.2213864

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{alagiannis_sigmod12,
        title = {{NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files}},
        author = {Alagiannis, Ioannis and Borovica, Renata and Branco, Miguel and Idreos, Stratos and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213864},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213864},
        year = {2012}
}

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1,220 Overview of Data Exploration Techniques 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011449992
1,383 H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store 2014 SIGMOD 0.00010826996
1,616 SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle 2020 CIDR 0.00010048776
1,753 Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.7119095e-05
1,942 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.3133693e-05
2,342 Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading 2014 SIGMOD 8.5978326e-05
2,356 Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser 2018 VLDB 8.5715425e-05
2,437 Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats 2014 SIGMOD 8.4576748e-05
2,446 Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 8.4392802e-05
2,618 dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips 2013 CIDR 8.1988906e-05
2,741 Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 8.0574455e-05
3,079 Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data 2014 VLDB 7.6544931e-05
3,456 Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing 2017 VLDB 7.2673968e-05
3,510 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2263115e-05
3,927 JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data 2021 SIGMOD 6.9025015e-05
4,312 NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data 2012 VLDB 6.6567338e-05
4,325 Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads 2017 VLDB 6.648427e-05
4,591 Accelerating Raw Data Analysis with the ACCORDA Software and Hardware Architecture 2019 VLDB 6.5021605e-05
4,855 ReCache: Reactive Caching for Fast Analytics over Heterogeneous Data 2018 VLDB 6.3657929e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
5,687 HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning 2023 VLDB 6.0201937e-05
6,079 ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data 2020 VLDB 5.8759961e-05
6,293 Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa 2015 CIDR 5.8045404e-05
6,835 CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment 2020 CIDR 5.6527238e-05
7,230 Dataset Relationship Management 2019 CIDR 5.5636441e-05
7,298 FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data 2019 VLDB 5.5467355e-05
7,320 CleanM: An Optimizable Query Language for Unified Scale-Out Data Cleaning 2017 VLDB 5.5401823e-05
7,469 DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System 2017 SIGMOD 5.50341e-05
7,763 Rumble: Data Independence for Large Messy Data Sets 2021 VLDB 5.4404611e-05
7,860 ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data 2021 SIGMOD 5.422643e-05
7,945 Scalable Structural Index Construction for JSON Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.4051378e-05
8,983 FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing 2019 SIGMOD 5.2317424e-05
9,316 AT-GIS: Highly Parallel Spatial Query Processing with Associative Transducers 2016 SIGMOD 5.1836101e-05
9,418 RawVis: A System for Efficient In-situ Visual Analytics 2021 SIGMOD 5.1672232e-05
9,571 GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example 2023 SIGMOD 5.1430298e-05
10,299 Shared Load(ing): Efficient Bulk Loading into Optimized Storage 2020 CIDR 5.0302708e-05
10,340 Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems 2025 SIGMOD 5.0210286e-05
11,623 SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,336 Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates 2017 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,395 Vectorizing an In Situ Query Engine 2016 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,610 Lazy ETL in Action: ETL Technology Dates Scientific Data 2013 VLDB 4.9605343e-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
89 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00035265687
151 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00028611216
154 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00028524078
189 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00025846085
196 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025581936
253 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023037921
321 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021093212
469 Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources 1997 VLDB 0.00017702382
493 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001735831
532 Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g 2004 VLDB 0.0001681305
756 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014209974
888 Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB 2009 CIDR 0.00013213294
1,696 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.8272691e-05
1,823 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 9.5457638e-05
1,846 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.5057831e-05
1,870 The Researcher's Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds 2011 VLDB 9.4495246e-05
1,937 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.3333463e-05
2,141 Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm 2011 VLDB 8.9671737e-05
2,381 To Tune or not to Tune? A Lightweight Physical Design Alerter 2006 VLDB 8.5299827e-05
3,614 Updating a Cracked Database 2007 SIGMOD 7.1420426e-05
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