{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-comparative-analysis-of-state-of-the-art","title":"A comparative analysis of state-of-the-art SQL-on-Hadoop systems for interactive analytics","arxiv_id":"1804.00224","date":"2018-03-31","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ashish Tapdiya","Daniel Fabbri"],"abstract":"Hadoop is emerging as the primary data hub in enterprises, and SQL represents the de facto language for data analysis. This combination has led to the development of a variety of SQL-on-Hadoop systems in use today. While the various SQL-on-Hadoop systems target the same class of analytical workloads, their different architectures, design decisions and implementations impact query performance. In this work, we perform a comparative analysis of four state-of-the-art SQL-on-Hadoop systems (Impala, Drill, Spark SQL and Phoenix) using the Web Data Analytics micro benchmark and the TPC-H benchmark on the Amazon EC2 cloud platform. The TPC-H experiment results show that, although Impala outperforms other systems (4.41x - 6.65x) in the text format, trade-offs exists in the parquet format, with each system performing best on subsets of queries. A comprehensive analysis of execution profiles expands upon the performance results to provide insights into performance variations, performance bottlenecks and query execution characteristics.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00224v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00224v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-comparative-analysis-of-state-of-the-art","repo_url":"https://github.com/meacial/e-book","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}