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: 12588
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.6513982e-05
Overall Rank: 3,899 | 72.91%
DOI: 10.14778/3436905.3436927

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5,251	Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	5.6003972e-05
5,437	RTIndeX: Exploiting Hardware-Accelerated GPU Raytracing for Database Indexing	2023	VLDB	5.5043792e-05
6,220	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1446966e-05
6,451	Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics	2025	VLDB	5.0522576e-05
7,155	Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	4.810361e-05
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7,570	Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs	2025	VLDB	4.7039167e-05
7,752	Efficiently Processing Joins and Grouped Aggregations on GPUs	2025	SIGMOD	4.6558737e-05
8,615	A Case for Graphics-driven Query Processing	2023	VLDB	4.4803479e-05
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10,293	GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,755	Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,360	Scaling Equi-Joins	2022	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
350	Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs	2009	VLDB	0.00026368305
403	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024176677
538	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.00020632609
584	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019700451
771	Relational Joins on Graphics Processors	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016813054
1,016	Memory-Efficient Hash Joins	2015	VLDB	0.00014630024
1,271	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00012900735
2,523	Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture	2013	VLDB	8.599693e-05

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