Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics

Summary: Vortex enables GPU analytics beyond device memory by aggregating PCIe bandwidth across multi-GPU systems, routing data through idle GPUs. Its decoupled kernel/IO programming model and zero-copy late materialization deliver 5.7× over Proteus without GPU caching. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13982
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.9895288e-05
Overall Rank: 6,065 | 58.39%
DOI: 10.14778/3717755.3717780

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Authors

1. Yichao Yuan (University of Michigan)
2. Advait Iyer (University of Michigan)
3. Lin Ma (University of Michigan)
4. Nishil Talati (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yuan_vldb25,
        title = {{Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics}},
        author = {Yuan, Yichao and Iyer, Advait and Ma, Lin and Talati, Nishil},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {4},
        pages = {1250--1263},
        doi = {10.14778/3717755.3717780},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3717755.3717780},
        year = {2025}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,432	Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs	2025	VLDB	5.6199783e-05
7,959	Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye	2026	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
10,118	Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,119	Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,541	Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,580	GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
823	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00013792901
912	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013269804
1,466	A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001068941
1,574	Pipelined Query Processing in Coprocessor Environments	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010321274
1,977	HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines	2019	VLDB	9.3641101e-05
2,504	Concurrent Analytical Query Processing with GPUs	2014	VLDB	8.4963369e-05
2,566	Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects	2020	SIGMOD	8.4116562e-05
2,736	Efficient Execution of Joins in a Star Schema	2002	SIGMOD	8.1891265e-05
2,809	Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG	2025	CIDR	8.0994951e-05
2,823	Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes	2022	VLDB	8.0893814e-05
3,134	Efficient Join Algorithms For Large Database Tables in a Multi-GPU Environment	2021	VLDB	7.7231028e-05
3,227	MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures	2021	SIGMOD	7.6217889e-05
4,021	PARADIS: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for In-place Radix Sort	2015	VLDB	6.9501893e-05
4,089	TCUDB: Accelerating Database with Tensor Processors	2022	SIGMOD	6.9096857e-05
4,243	Orchestrating Data Placement and Query Execution in Heterogeneous CPU-GPU DBMS	2022	VLDB	6.8073248e-05
4,376	Adaptive Work Placement for Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computing Resources	2017	VLDB	6.7364442e-05
4,535	Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	6.6419266e-05
5,092	Ocelot/HyPE: Optimized Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware	2014	VLDB	6.3669454e-05
5,422	GPU Database Systems Characterization and Optimization	2024	VLDB	6.2245373e-05
5,989	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.0175059e-05
6,774	Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	5.7778738e-05
7,113	GPUQP: Query Co-Processing Using Graphics Processors	2007	SIGMOD	5.6985502e-05

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