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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask

Summary: Apples-to-apples comparison of vectorized and data-centric query processing in a single system. Vectorization hides cache-miss latency; data-centric compilation uses fewer instructions for cache-resident workloads, with SIMD and multi-core effects analyzed. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11921
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00015320656
Overall Rank
649 | 95.55%
DOI
10.14778/3275366.3275370

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{kersten_vldb18,
        title = {{Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask}},
        author = {Kersten, Timo and Leis, Viktor and Kemper, Alfons and Neumann, Thomas and Pavlo, Andrew and Boncz, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {13},
        pages = {2209--2222},
        doi = {10.14778/3275366.3275370},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275366.3275370},
        year = {2018}
}

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2,202 Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations 2020 VLDB 8.9639459e-05
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2,823 Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes 2022 VLDB 8.0893814e-05
3,269 ALP: Adaptive Lossless floating-Point Compression 2023 SIGMOD 7.5809516e-05
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3,874 Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing 2021 VLDB 7.0561161e-05
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5,301 Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries 2022 VLDB 6.2750553e-05
5,376 Evolution of a Compiling Query Engine 2021 VLDB 6.2415397e-05
5,469 Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine 2024 SIGMOD 6.2073056e-05
5,536 Database Processing-in-Memory: An Experimental Study 2020 VLDB 6.1822684e-05
5,765 Charting the Design Space of Query Execution using VOILA 2021 VLDB 6.0953705e-05
5,781 Free Join: Unifying Worst-Case Optimal and Traditional Joins 2023 SIGMOD 6.0910397e-05
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6,665 MorphStore: Analytical Query Engine with a Holistic Compression-Enabled Processing Model 2020 VLDB 5.8089595e-05
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7,150 BSX : Subgraph Matching with Batch Backtracking Search 2025 SIGMOD 5.687428e-05
7,156 The Case for Deep Query Optimisation 2020 CIDR 5.686096e-05
7,666 Hardware-Oblivious SIMD Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores 2020 CIDR 5.57179e-05
7,899 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5195553e-05
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8,096 Efficient Execution of User-Defined Functions in SQL Queries 2023 VLDB 5.4875738e-05
8,238 Interleaved Multi-Vectorizing 2020 VLDB 5.4599422e-05
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9,167 Dynamic Speculative Optimizations for SQL Compilation in Apache Spark 2020 VLDB 5.3099969e-05
9,917 The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries 2025 VLDB 5.1955087e-05
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10,072 Query Compilation Without Regrets 2024 SIGMOD 5.1624689e-05
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23 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00054886415
98 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.00034510605
165 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.00027693424
216 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00024498128
241 Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age 2014 SIGMOD 0.00023654664
293 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022259273
940 Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores 2013 SIGMOD 0.00013081205
941 Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013078348
1,229 Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics 2017 CIDR 0.00011578425
1,265 An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011415709
1,379 Relaxed Operator Fusion for In-Memory Databases: Making Compilation, Vectorization, and Prefetching Work Together At Last 2018 VLDB 0.00010970894
1,442 An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows 2015 VLDB 0.00010778486
1,469 Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware 2016 VLDB 0.00010678751
1,747 SQL Server Column Store Indexes 2011 SIGMOD 9.8494706e-05
1,797 How to Architect a Query Compiler 2016 SIGMOD 9.7368925e-05
2,156 Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach 2018 VLDB 9.0635624e-05
2,488 How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 8.5091578e-05
3,195 Micro Adaptivity in Vectorwise 2013 SIGMOD 7.6481177e-05
3,673 Efficient Processing of Window Functions in Analytical SQL Queries 2015 VLDB 7.2113383e-05
3,860 Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads 2018 VLDB 7.0670192e-05
4,866 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 6.4720641e-05
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