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Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas

Summary: Clay is an online partitioner for general schemas with FKs, not limited to tree structures. It uses fine-grained blocks of hot and co-accessed data to balance load and minimize movement, delivering up to 15x throughput and 99% latency reduction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11542
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
7.7285127e-05
Overall Rank
3,006 | 79.11%
DOI
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189 Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services 2011 CIDR 0.00035934191
208 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00034478612
339 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00026895683
679 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018211621
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3,825 Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 6.7225803e-05
5,750 JECB: a Join-Extension, Code-Based Approach to OLTP Data Partitioning 2014 SIGMOD 5.340715e-05
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