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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1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
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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
1,223	Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores	2013	SIGMOD	0.00013207641
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1,618	Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation	2008	VLDB	0.00011114015
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