Data Processing on FPGAs

Summary: Data processing operators on FPGAs in heterogeneous many-core systems. Asynchronous sorting-network model, FPGA-centric design, and integration strategy enable FPGA acceleration with competitive CPU performance and lower power for streaming data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10109
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00013207382
Overall Rank: 922 | 93.68%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687730

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Authors

1. Rene Mueller (ETH Zurich)
2. Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mueller_vldb09,
        title = {{Data Processing on FPGAs}},
        author = {Mueller, Rene and Teubner, Jens and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687730},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687730},
        year = {2009}
}

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876	Orthogonal Security With Cipherbase	2013	CIDR	0.00013467554
912	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013269804
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2,537	Secure Database-as-a-Service with Cipherbase	2013	SIGMOD	8.4549061e-05
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2,713	Robust Query Processing in Co-Processor-accelerated Databases	2016	SIGMOD	8.2122726e-05
3,682	In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.2035518e-05
3,804	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	7.1112233e-05
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3,895	The Case For Heterogeneous HTAP	2017	CIDR	7.0416054e-05
4,192	Querying Encrypted Data	2014	SIGMOD	6.8428357e-05
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5,473	Datalog and Emerging Applications: An Interactive Tutorial	2011	SIGMOD	6.2055397e-05
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8,777	Glacier: A Query-to-Hardware Compiler	2010	SIGMOD	5.375706e-05
8,878	Scotch: Generating FPGA-Accelerators for Sketching at Line Rate	2021	VLDB	5.3532614e-05
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10,223	Discovery of Denial Constraints with Hardware Acceleration	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,080	An Experimental Evaluation of Datacenter Workloads On Low-Power Embedded Micro Servers	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030738755
293	Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions	2002	SIGMOD	0.00022259273
305	GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00021872796
383	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00019520728
712	Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture	2008	VLDB	0.0001468812
1,452	Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors	2004	SIGMOD	0.00010745803
2,139	CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor	2007	VLDB	9.1061768e-05
2,181	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	9.0101847e-05
2,581	Boosting XML Filtering with a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture	2009	CIDR	8.3882047e-05

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