The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign

Summary: RDMA-capable networks erase the old bottleneck, with bandwidth and latency rivaling memory channels and forcing a redesign of distributed in-memory DBMSs. Proposes a new architecture and shows OLTP/OLAP prototype results with large gains over existing designs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11344
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 0.00012439556
Overall Rank: 1,351 | 90.62%
DOI: -

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2,545	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	8.5616487e-05
2,991	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	7.7701741e-05
3,117	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.5400979e-05
3,428	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.1002401e-05
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3,829	Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines	2022	CIDR	6.7187307e-05
3,925	Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks	2019	VLDB	6.621264e-05
4,449	DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks	2021	SIGMOD	6.1740574e-05
4,490	Analyzing Efficient Stream Processing on Modern Hardware	2019	VLDB	6.137834e-05
4,523	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1102901e-05
4,979	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	5.7830279e-05
5,014	TurboGraph++: A Scalable and Fast Graph Analytics System	2018	SIGMOD	5.7519428e-05
5,059	G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture	2022	VLDB	5.7207311e-05
5,094	The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing	2019	CIDR	5.6972533e-05
5,116	AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins	2017	VLDB	5.6805476e-05
5,256	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	5.5990529e-05
5,498	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	5.4738497e-05
5,631	CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines	2024	VLDB	5.4009909e-05
6,220	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1446966e-05
6,297	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.1192861e-05
6,418	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.063249e-05
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7,847	ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching	2020	SIGMOD	4.632377e-05
8,004	Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	4.6048388e-05
8,075	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	4.5888845e-05
8,098	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	4.5824106e-05
8,379	Fiber-based Architecture for NFV Cloud Databases	2017	VLDB	4.5275334e-05
8,458	Topology-aware Parallel Data Processing: Models, Algorithms and Systems at Scale	2020	CIDR	4.5013189e-05
8,647	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	4.4720005e-05
9,528	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	4.3259125e-05
10,551	Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,788	From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB's Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,069	OLAP on Modern Chiplet-Based Processors	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,360	Scaling Equi-Joins	2022	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,362	KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks	2022	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,570	Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
136	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042409816
208	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00034478612
241	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00031314629
403	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024176677
417	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023734582
679	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00018211621
715	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017636409
961	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00015028453
1,084	Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure	2010	SIGMOD	0.00014175432
1,086	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.00014159702
1,196	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013378379
1,397	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012208385
1,447	High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy	2015	CIDR	0.0001192999
1,610	A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011155922
1,748	Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation	2005	SIGMOD	0.00010686096
1,827	Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems	2013	VLDB	0.00010389522
1,875	An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows	2015	VLDB	0.00010243959
1,956	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	9.9626473e-05
2,518	Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic	2014	SIGMOD	8.6052941e-05
2,940	Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	7.8508808e-05
3,825	Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	6.7225803e-05

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