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DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store

Summary: DB2 BLU accelerates BI queries with a column-store, dictionary compression, and SIMD in-memory processing, delivering 10–50× speedups and 3–10× better compression than row stores. It processes predicates, joins, and group-bys directly on compressed data using late materialization and parallelism, while enabling seamless mixing of column- and row-tables in one tablespace. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10545
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00031420034
Overall Rank
241 | 98.33%
DOI
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
9 Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems 1984 SIGMOD 0.0014279444
21 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086087497
80 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00055721729
123 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00045255007
305 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00028248614
585 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019706145
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