Systolic (VLSI) Arrays for Relational Database Operations

Summary: Hardware-accelerated relational ops via systolic VLSI arrays; pipelined intersection, dedup, union, join, and division. Simple processors and regular interconnects yield cost-effective, scalable implementations with present technology. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2187
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 7.7354365e-05
Overall Rank: 3,124 | 78.57%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582267

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Authors

1. H. T. Kung (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Philip L. Lehman (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kung_sigmod80,
        title = {{Systolic (VLSI) Arrays for Relational Database Operations}},
        author = {Kung, H. T. and Lehman, Philip L.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582267},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582267},
        year = {1980}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,369	How Soccer Players Would do Stream Joins	2011	SIGMOD	0.0001099892
2,857	Overview of the Jasmin Database Machine	1984	SIGMOD	8.029871e-05
4,322	Dynamic and Order Preserving Data Partitioning for Database Machines	1985	VLDB	6.7616029e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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