Glacier: A Query-to-Hardware Compiler

Summary: Glacier: a query-to-hardware compiler that maps streaming query plans to FPGA circuits using a library of stream-operator modules. Demonstrates end-to-end hardware acceleration by instantiating and wiring modules into a circuit from a query plan. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4400
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.375706e-05
Overall Rank: 8,777 | 39.79%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807307

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Authors

1. Rene Mueller (ETH Zurich)
2. Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mueller_sigmod10,
        title = {{Glacier: A Query-to-Hardware Compiler}},
        author = {Mueller, Rene and Teubner, Jens and Alonso, Gustavo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807307},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807307},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,798	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.5024772e-05
4,840	FPGA-based Data Partitioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.483442e-05
5,473	Datalog and Emerging Applications: An Interactive Tutorial	2011	SIGMOD	6.2055397e-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
922	Data Processing on FPGAs	2009	VLDB	0.00013207382
2,181	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	9.0101847e-05
2,581	Boosting XML Filtering with a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture	2009	CIDR	8.3882047e-05

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