The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product
Summary: Industry experience report on RateupDB, a complete CPU/GPU HTAP product, emphasizing balanced OLTP/OLAP support, performance versus development productivity, and algorithm choices. Full-system TPC-H results demonstrate advantages over GPU DBMS alternatives. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Rubao Lee (Rateup Inc.)
- 2. Minghong Zhou (Rateup Inc.)
- 3. Chi Li (Rateup Inc.)
- 4. Shenggang Hu (Rateup Inc.)
- 5. Jianping Teng (Rateup Inc.)
- 6. Dongyang Li (Rateup Inc.)
- 7. Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lee_vldb21,
title = {{The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product}},
author = {Lee, Rubao and Zhou, Minghong and Li, Chi and Hu, Shenggang and Teng, Jianping and Li, Dongyang and Zhang, Xiaodong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {12},
pages = {2999--3013},
doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476378},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476378},
year = {2021}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,580 | Accelerating Pathology Image Data Cross-Comparison on CPU-GPU Hybrid Systems | 2012 | VLDB | 5.4082911e-05 |
| 9,449 | MCC-DB: Minimizing Cache Conflicts in Multi-core Processors for Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 5.2665098e-05 |
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