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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
4311
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015003834
Overall Rank
962 | 93.32%
DOI
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866 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00015771189
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2,714 Minimal MapReduce Algorithms 2013 SIGMOD 8.2426646e-05
2,764 Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats 2014 SIGMOD 8.1607305e-05
3,120 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.533894e-05
3,384 Scalable and Adaptive Online Joins 2014 VLDB 7.153329e-05
4,128 Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation 2014 VLDB 6.4214449e-05
5,012 Dynamically Optimizing Queries over Large Scale Data Platforms 2014 SIGMOD 5.7543101e-05
5,110 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 5.6868273e-05
5,367 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 5.5461097e-05
5,541 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 5.4501856e-05
5,905 The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication 2015 PODS 5.2746158e-05
6,223 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.1439129e-05
6,301 Elastic Pipelining in an In-Memory Database Cluster 2016 SIGMOD 5.1172165e-05
6,502 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0288901e-05
6,618 Near-Optimal Distributed Band-Joins through Recursive Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 4.9864636e-05
6,747 DistME: A Fast and Elastic Distributed Matrix Computation Engine using GPUs 2019 SIGMOD 4.9369478e-05
7,056 SquirrelJoin: Network-Aware Distributed Join Processing with Lazy Partitioning 2017 VLDB 4.8420027e-05
7,154 Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation 2018 SIGMOD 4.8107765e-05
7,215 SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 4.7939964e-05
7,600 Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale 2016 VLDB 4.697054e-05
9,113 MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis 2012 VLDB 4.3889284e-05
9,360 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 4.3476444e-05
11,360 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,839 Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016 PODS 4.1905499e-05
11,890 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024217964
15 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.0010668335
22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00084679526
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
230 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00032145125
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