Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs

Summary: MaxBench evaluates relational workloads (TPC‑H, H2O‑G, ClickBench) across GPUs (RTX3090, A100, H100, GH200) and interconnects (PCIe3/4/5, NVLink4), profiling CPU–GPU transfers and per-operator costs. Introduces characteristic query complexity and GPU/interconnect efficiency plus a cost model to quantify compute vs bandwidth trade-offs and forecast performance gains from hardware improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14051
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.7039167e-05
Overall Rank: 7,570 | 47.39%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749698

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2,523	Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture	2013	VLDB	8.599693e-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
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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
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6,492	GOLAP: A GPU-in-Data-Path Architecture for High-Speed OLAP	2024	SIGMOD	5.0364695e-05
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7,375	GPUQP: Query Co-Processing Using Graphics Processors	2007	SIGMOD	4.7439007e-05
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