Michael Armbrust

19.2k citations

16 papers · 12.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 13

Impact in

Information Systems top 0.01%
- Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Cloud Data Security Solutions
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Computer Networks and Communications top 0.05%
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Caching and Content Delivery
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Papers in

Information Systems and Management 4
- Scientific Computing and Data Management 4
Computer Networks and Communications 13
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries 9
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies 4
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance 3
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing 2

Co-authors: Matei Zaharia Ion Stoica Armando Fox David A. Patterson Rean Griffith Ariel Rabkin Randy H. Katz Anthony D. Joseph
Journals: Communications of the ACM (2 papers)Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2 papers)UC Berkeley (3 papers)Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Michael Armbrust

16 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Apache Spark 2016 · 1.4k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Communications of the ACM
2015 Spark SQL
2010 Communications of the ACM
2009 UC Berkeley

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

#	Work
1	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ·Matei Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin, Michael Armbrust	2021	74
2	Structured Streaming Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, Baiget Bastus M, Burak Yavuz, M Makano, Reynold Xin, Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia	2018	106
3	Drizzle Shivaram Venkataraman, Aurojit Panda, Kay Ousterhout, Michael Armbrust, Ali Ghodsi, Michael J. Franklin, Benjamin Recht, Ion Stoica	2017	105
4	Apache Spark Communications of the ACM ·Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Tathagata Das, Michael Armbrust, Ankur Dave, Xiangrui Meng, Josh Rosen, Shivaram Venkataraman, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1371
5	Introduction to Spark 2.0 for Database Researchers Michael Armbrust, Sjur Grindstuen, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia	2016	16
6	Spark SQL Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin, Cheng Lian, Yin Huai, Dian Ayu Ningrum, Joseph K. Bradley, Xiangrui Meng, Tomer Kaftan, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia Hit paper breakdown →	2015	761
7	Scaling spark in the real world Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment ·Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, D. Tabuani, Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Or, Josh Rosen, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia	2015	67
8	G-OLA Kai Zeng, Sameer Agarwal, Ankur Dave, Michael Armbrust, Ion Stoica	2015	52
9	Generalized scale independence through incremental precomputation Michael Armbrust, Eric Liang, Tim Kraska, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, David A. Patterson	2013	19
10	PIQL Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment ·Michael Armbrust, Juan Camilo López Muñoz, Tim Kraska, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, David A. Patterson	2011	36
11	The case for PIQL Michael Armbrust, Dariia A. Zhukova, Stephen Tu, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, David A. Patterson	2010	6
12	PIQL: A Performance Insightful Query Language For Interactive Applications UC Berkeley ·Michael Armbrust, Dariia A. Zhukova, Stephen Tu, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, David A. Patterson	2010	4
13	PIQL Michael Armbrust, Stephen Tu, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, David A. Patterson, Dariia A. Zhukova, Beth Trushkowsky, Thomas C Truelsen	2010	6
14	A view of cloud computing Communications of the ACM ·Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Andy Konwinski, S. Seo, David A. Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia Hit paper breakdown →	2010	5712
15	Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing UC Berkeley ·Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Deepali Vetale, S. Seo, David A. Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia Hit paper breakdown →	2009	3687
16	A Case For Adaptive Datacenters To Conserve Energy and Improve Reliability UC Berkeley ·Peter Bodík, Michael Armbrust, Kevin Robert Canini, Armando Fox, 正道遠山, David A. Patterson	2008	29

About Michael Armbrust

Michael Armbrust is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 16 papers that have together received 12.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (11 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (9 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (4 papers), Data Stream Mining Techniques (4 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (4 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (4 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (3 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Information Systems (8.4k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (7.6k citations), Information Systems and Management (1.1k citations), Management Information Systems (894 citations) and Artificial Intelligence (2.6k citations). Michael Armbrust has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson, Rean Griffith, Ariel Rabkin, Randy H. Katz, Anthony D. Joseph, Andy Konwinski and Ali Ghodsi. Their work appears in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, UC Berkeley and Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research.

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