Reynold Xin

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
23 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Reynold Xin is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Reynold Xin has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Information Systems, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Reynold Xin's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (10 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (8 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers). Reynold Xin is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (10 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (8 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers). Reynold Xin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Reynold Xin's co-authors include Michael J. Franklin, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Michael Armbrust, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Xiangrui Meng, Scott Shenker, Josh Rosen and Tathagata Das and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and Semantic Web.

In The Last Decade

Reynold Xin

22 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Apache Spark

2016 1.4k citations Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin et al. Communications of the ACM profile →
Spark SQL

2015 761 citations Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin et al. profile →
CrowdDB

2011 433 citations Michael J. Franklin, Donald Kossmann et al. profile →
GraphX

2013 352 citations Reynold Xin, Joseph E. Gonzalez et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Reynold Xin

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Reynold Xin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reynold Xin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Reynold Xin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Reynold Xin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Reynold Xin. Reynold Xin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Databricks Lakeguard: Supporting Fine-grained Access Control and Multi-user Capabilities for Apache Spark Workloads 2025 ·Martin Grund, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David Lewis, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia, Michalis Petropoulos, (unknown)	0
2	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics. 2021 ·Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ·Matei Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin, Michael Armbrust	74
3	SparkFuzz 2020 ·Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands ·(unknown), Nicolás Poggi, Josh Rosen, Reynold Xin, Peter Boncz	7
4	Structured Streaming 2018 ·Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, (unknown), Burak Yavuz, (unknown), Reynold Xin, Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia	106
5	Apache Spark breakdown → 2016 ·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	1371
6	Introduction to Spark 2.0 for Database Researchers 2016 ·Michael Armbrust, (unknown), Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia	16
7	GraphFrames 2016 ·Ankur Dave, Alekh Jindal, Li Erran Li, Reynold Xin, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Matei Zaharia	43
8	SparkR 2016 ·Shivaram Venkataraman, Zongheng Yang, (unknown), Eric Liang, Hossein Falaki, Xiangrui Meng, Reynold Xin, Ali Ghodsi, Michael J. Franklin, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia	43
9	Spark SQL breakdown → 2015 ·Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin, Cheng Lian, Yin Huai, (unknown), Joseph K. Bradley, Xiangrui Meng, Tomer Kaftan, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia	761
10	Scaling spark in the real world 2015 ·Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment ·Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, (unknown), Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Or, Josh Rosen, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia	67
11	A partitioning framework for aggressive data skipping 2014 ·Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment ·Liwen Sun, Sanjay Krishnan, Reynold Xin, Michael J. Franklin	7
12	Fine-grained partitioning for aggressive data skipping 2014 ·Liwen Sun, Michael J. Franklin, Sanjay Krishnan, Reynold Xin	72
13	The case for tiny tasks in compute clusters 2013 ·Kay Ousterhout, Aurojit Panda, Joshua Rosen, Shivaram Venkataraman, Reynold Xin, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica	53
14	Beating State-of-the-art By -10000%. 2013 ·Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ·Reynold Xin	1
15	Publishing bibliographic data on the Semantic Web using BibBase 2013 ·Semantic Web ·Reynold Xin, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Christian Fritz, Shirin Sohrabi, Renée J. Miller	11
16	Shark 2013 ·Reynold Xin, Josh Rosen, Matei Zaharia, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica	240
17	GraphX breakdown → 2013 ·Reynold Xin, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Michael J. Franklin, Ion Stoica	352
18	Finding related tables 2012 ·Anish Das Sarma, Lujun Fang, Nitin Gupta, Alon Halevy, Hongrae Lee, Fei Wu, Reynold Xin, Cong Yu	105
19	Shark 2012 ·(unknown), (unknown), Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica	87
20	CrowdDB 2011 ·Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment ·(unknown), Michael J. Franklin, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Samuel Madden, Sukriti Ramesh, Andrew Wang, Reynold Xin	48

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