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GPU Database Systems Characterization and Optimization
Summary: Cross-stack microarchitectural and roofline analysis of four GPU DBs (incl. Crystal, TQP) revealing resource underutilization and query-processing bottlenecks. Introduce system and MIG-aware resource-allocation optimizations achieving 1.9× lower single-query latency and up to 6.5× concurrent throughput.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13671
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2024
- Pagerank
- 5.2240241e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,068 | 57.83%
- DOI
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10.14778/3632093.3632107
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| 6,451 |
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4.7039167e-05 |
| 7,752 |
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SIGMOD |
4.6558737e-05 |
| 7,917 |
Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye |
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4.6129625e-05 |
| 8,123 |
Maximus: A Modular Accelerated Query Engine for Data Analytics on Heterogeneous Systems |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.5770901e-05 |
| 8,846 |
Scaling your Hybrid CPU-GPU DBMS to Multiple GPUs |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.432948e-05 |
| 9,206 |
Themis: A GPU-accelerated Relational Query Execution Engine |
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VLDB |
4.3695556e-05 |
| 10,084 |
GraphMatch: Subgraph Query Processing on Steroids |
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| 10,111 |
Scalable Graph Indexing using GPUs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,121 |
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2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,253 |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 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 |
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VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,867 |
Towards Sufficient GPU-accelerated Dynamic Graph Management: Survey and Experiment |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 24 of 24 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank |
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Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 59 |
Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware |
2011 |
VLDB |
0.0006445664 |
| 66 |
Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00061707583 |
| 124 |
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1999 |
VLDB |
0.0004501099 |
| 1,271 |
The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00012900735 |
| 1,285 |
Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00012809552 |
| 2,044 |
A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
9.6963999e-05 |
| 2,072 |
HippogriffDB: Balancing I/O and GPU Bandwidth in Big Data Analytics |
2016 |
VLDB |
9.6300019e-05 |
| 2,292 |
Pipelined Query Processing in Coprocessor Environments |
2018 |
SIGMOD |
9.0884645e-05 |
| 2,659 |
HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines |
2019 |
VLDB |
8.3615158e-05 |
| 3,260 |
Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes |
2022 |
VLDB |
7.3091312e-05 |
| 3,328 |
Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
7.2136181e-05 |
| 3,471 |
GPL: A GPU-based Pipelined Query Processing Engine |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
7.0628019e-05 |
| 4,000 |
MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
6.5419402e-05 |
| 4,500 |
GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
6.1326735e-05 |
| 5,018 |
Orchestrating Data Placement and Query Execution in Heterogeneous CPU-GPU DBMS |
2022 |
VLDB |
5.7503878e-05 |
| 5,039 |
Tile-based Lightweight Integer Compression in GPU |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.7369993e-05 |
| 5,199 |
Data-Parallel Query Processing on Non-Uniform Data |
2020 |
VLDB |
5.6294232e-05 |
| 5,251 |
Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.6003972e-05 |
| 6,327 |
The Tensor Data Platform: Towards an AI-centric Database System |
2023 |
CIDR |
5.1035567e-05 |
| 6,367 |
Improving Execution Efficiency of Just-in-time Compilation based Query Processing on GPUs |
2021 |
VLDB |
5.0887599e-05 |
| 6,950 |
A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
4.8845195e-05 |
| 7,155 |
Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.810361e-05 |
| 8,101 |
Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities |
2020 |
VLDB |
4.581825e-05 |
| 9,694 |
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2022 |
VLDB |
4.2984337e-05 |
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