Sebastian Cattes

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Database system architecture and tuning · 50% Query processing and optimization · 50%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Cloud and datacenter computing · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Query processing and optimization
analytical workloads
0.912025
Workload Insights From the Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like? · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Database system architecture and tuning
workload characterization
0.912025
Workload Insights From the Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like? · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025
Cloud and datacenter computing
database-as-a-service
0.912025
Workload Insights From the Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like? · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

query log analysis · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Workload Insights From the Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?
abstract
Capturing the characteristics of real-world analytical workloads is challenging yet critical for advancing industry practices and academic research. Historically, obtaining accurate query and data characteristics has been difficult, largely because detailed workload information has often been confined to on-premises database systems. With the rise of cloud-native databases like Snowflake, it has become possible to analyze production query workloads at scale and in greater detail. Leveraging this capability, this study presents a comprehensive analysis of analytics workloads across diverse customers and industries. In particular, we investigate the query characteristics of 667 million queries issued by the most popular BI tools against Snowflake over a two-week period. Based on this dataset, this paper makes two primary contributions: first, we conduct a detailed examination of query properties, with particular attention to filters, joins, aggregations, and other previously underexplored aspects. Second, we uncover unique and practically relevant query patterns that are typically absent from standard database benchmarks.
Jan Vincent Szlang, Sebastian Breß, Sebastian Cattes, Jonathan Dees, Florian Funke 0004, Max Heimel, Michel Oleynik, Ismail Oukid, Tobias Maltenberger
Proc. VLDB Endow.3