Efficient Join Algorithms For Large Database Tables in a Multi-GPU Environment

Summary: Multi-GPU join algorithms for very large tables; three designs: nested-loop, global-sort-merge, hybrid. Addresses CPU–GPU data-transfer bottlenecks; shows scalability and up to 25× vs multi-core CPU and 2.8× vs single-GPU. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12587
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.6551268e-05
Overall Rank: 3,898 | 72.89%
DOI: 10.14778/3436905.3436927

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5,125	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	5.679423e-05
5,247	Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	5.6057839e-05
5,426	RTIndeX: Exploiting Hardware-Accelerated GPU Raytracing for Database Indexing	2023	VLDB	5.5096704e-05
6,223	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1496398e-05
6,453	Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics	2025	VLDB	5.0571108e-05
7,155	Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	4.8149812e-05
7,328	BOSS - An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition	2024	VLDB	4.7610909e-05
7,568	Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs	2025	VLDB	4.7084322e-05
7,751	Efficiently Processing Joins and Grouped Aggregations on GPUs	2025	SIGMOD	4.6603427e-05
8,616	A Case for Graphics-driven Query Processing	2023	VLDB	4.4846474e-05
8,846	Scaling your Hybrid CPU-GPU DBMS to Multiple GPUs	2024	VLDB	4.4372012e-05
9,142	Design and Analysis of a Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm: A Case Study with UPMEM DIMMs	2023	SIGMOD	4.3853149e-05
9,805	MEMO: Fine-grained Tensor Management For Ultra-long Context LLM Training	2025	SIGMOD	4.2805224e-05
9,838	Efficiently Joining Large Relations on Multi-GPU Systems	2025	VLDB	4.2740344e-05
10,253	Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,281	GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,749	Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,358	Scaling Equi-Joins	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
351	Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs	2009	VLDB	0.0002636504
404	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024143076
540	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.0002063443
585	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019706145
775	Relational Joins on Graphics Processors	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016823862
1,016	Memory-Efficient Hash Joins	2015	VLDB	0.00014638492
1,273	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00012912938
2,519	Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture	2013	VLDB	8.6078505e-05

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