RayDB: Building Databases with Ray Tracing Cores

Summary: Uses GPU ray-tracing (RT) cores to accelerate queries by mapping core operators (scan, group-by, aggregation) into a single ray-tracing job via 3D attribute encodings and prebuilt BVHs. Encoding and ray-launching techniques exploit RT cores across workloads, achieving up to 18.3x speedup versus top GPU engines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Mar 13 2026)

Paper ID: 14344
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,302 | 28.41%
DOI: 10.14778/3772181.3772185

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1,271	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00012900735
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
2,336	Concurrent Analytical Query Processing with GPUs	2014	VLDB	9.0106308e-05
3,260	Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes	2022	VLDB	7.3091312e-05
3,771	SABER: Window-Based Hybrid Stream Processing for Heterogeneous Architectures	2016	SIGMOD	6.7738535e-05
5,089	TCUDB: Accelerating Database with Tensor Processors	2022	SIGMOD	5.7017353e-05
5,129	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	5.6724875e-05
5,437	RTIndeX: Exploiting Hardware-Accelerated GPU Raytracing for Database Indexing	2023	VLDB	5.5043792e-05
5,762	BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans	2020	SIGMOD	5.3367636e-05
7,482	RTScan: Efficient Scan with Ray Tracing Cores	2024	VLDB	4.7135369e-05

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