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A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce

Summary: Evaluates common join strategies for log processing in MapReduce, highlighting platform-specific trade-offs and implementation details. Provides an empirical comparison on a 100-node Hadoop cluster to guide when to apply particular join algorithms in MapReduce workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4310
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015012242
Overall Rank
960 | 93.33%
DOI
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3,115 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.543505e-05
3,382 Scalable and Adaptive Online Joins 2014 VLDB 7.1597145e-05
4,132 Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation 2014 VLDB 6.4241067e-05
5,014 Dynamically Optimizing Queries over Large Scale Data Platforms 2014 SIGMOD 5.7586174e-05
5,105 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 5.694494e-05
5,356 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 5.5509715e-05
5,532 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 5.4548897e-05
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6,226 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.1476331e-05
6,304 Elastic Pipelining in an In-Memory Database Cluster 2016 SIGMOD 5.1210182e-05
6,507 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0337166e-05
6,619 Near-Optimal Distributed Band-Joins through Recursive Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 4.9910152e-05
6,745 DistME: A Fast and Elastic Distributed Matrix Computation Engine using GPUs 2019 SIGMOD 4.9417155e-05
7,060 SquirrelJoin: Network-Aware Distributed Join Processing with Lazy Partitioning 2017 VLDB 4.8465382e-05
7,153 Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation 2018 SIGMOD 4.8153963e-05
7,215 SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 4.7985991e-05
7,599 Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale 2016 VLDB 4.7003593e-05
9,115 MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis 2012 VLDB 4.3932167e-05
9,375 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 4.347384e-05
11,358 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,831 Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016 PODS 4.1945683e-05
11,882 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024183614
15 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.0010654262
22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.0008456613
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073498298
232 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00032122485
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