Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs

Summary: Glacier, an FPGA-based query compiler, maps continuous stream operators (selection, aggregation, grouping, windowing) to modular logic circuits. Placing the FPGA in the NIC-to-CPU data path yields >1M tuples/s directly from the network, reducing CPU transfer overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10112
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.0101847e-05
Overall Rank: 2,181 | 85.04%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687654

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

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

BibTeX Citation

@article{mueller_vldb09,
        title = {{Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs}},
        author = {Mueller, Rene and Teubner, Jens and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687654},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687654},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

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922	Data Processing on FPGAs	2009	VLDB	0.00013207382
1,773	Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	9.7895875e-05
3,744	Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs	2010	VLDB	7.1576479e-05
3,846	Efficient Event Processing through Reconfigurable Hardware for Algorithmic Trading	2010	VLDB	7.0765817e-05
4,090	The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?	2013	CIDR	6.9096664e-05
4,313	Flexible Query Processor on FPGAs	2013	VLDB	6.767137e-05
4,798	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.5024772e-05
6,572	A Morsel-Driven Query Execution Engine for Heterogeneous Multi-Cores	2019	VLDB	5.8373744e-05
6,825	Demonstrating Efficient Query Processing in Heterogeneous Environments	2014	SIGMOD	5.7622696e-05
7,569	Less Watts, More Performance: An Intelligent Storage Engine for Data Appliances	2013	SIGMOD	5.5950861e-05
8,199	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.4686907e-05
8,420	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	5.4279873e-05
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
9,082	An Application-Specific Instruction Set for Accelerating Set-Oriented Database Primitives	2014	SIGMOD	5.3251649e-05
9,481	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	5.2634238e-05
10,026	DASH: Asynchronous Hardware Data Processing Services	2023	CIDR	5.1757112e-05
10,223	Discovery of Denial Constraints with Hardware Acceleration	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,913	RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,361	SwissBox: An Architecture for Data Processing Appliances	2011	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
305	GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00021872796
543	Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation	2001	SIGMOD	0.0001682612
671	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00015154516
2,655	Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor	2007	VLDB	8.2888851e-05
4,005	Fast Data Stream Algorithms using Associative Memories	2007	SIGMOD	6.9643802e-05
7,282	Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100	2007	CIDR	5.6567725e-05

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