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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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SkewTune: mitigating skew in mapreduce applications
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
Exploiting MapReduce-based similarity joins
Cloud enabled systems have become a crucial component to efficiently process and analyze massive amounts of data. One of the key data processing and analysis operations is the Sim...
Yasin N. Silva, Jason M. Reed
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
MCJoin: a memory-constrained join for column-store main-memory databases
There exists a need for high performance, read-only mainmemory database systems for OLAP-style application scenarios. Most of the existing works in this area are centered around t...
Steven Keith Begley, Zhen He, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
A latency and fault-tolerance optimizer for online parallel query plans
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...
Prasang Upadhyaya, YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazi...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
Sensitivity analysis and explanations for robust query evaluation in probabilistic databases
Probabilistic database systems have successfully established themselves as a tool for managing uncertain data. However, much of the research in this area has focused on efficient...
Bhargav Kanagal, Jian Li, Amol Deshpande
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
A data-oriented transaction execution engine and supporting tools
Conventional OLTP systems assign each transaction to a worker thread and that thread accesses data, depending on what the transaction dictates. This thread-to-transaction work ass...
Ippokratis Pandis, Pinar Tözün, Miguel B...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
WHAM: a high-throughput sequence alignment method
Over the last decade the cost of producing genomic sequences has dropped dramatically due to the current so called “next-gen” sequencing methods. However, these next-gen seque...
Yinan Li, Allison Terrell, Jignesh M. Patel
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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Ranking with uncertain scoring functions: semantics and sensitivity measures
Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
Query optimization techniques for partitioned tables
Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...
Herodotos Herodotou, Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Ba...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
248views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Llama: leveraging columnar storage for scalable join processing in the MapReduce framework
To achieve high reliability and scalability, most large-scale data warehouse systems have adopted the cluster-based architecture. In this paper, we propose the design of a new clu...
Yuting Lin, Divyakant Agrawal, Chun Chen, Beng Chi...