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Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce*

Summary: Maps arbitrary theta-joins to MapReduce via a simple key-equality data-flow model; supports non-equi joins without changing MR. Introduces 1-Bucket-Theta, a randomized, memory-aware algorithm needing only input cardinality, near-optimal for many joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4445
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014260096
Overall Rank
1,074 | 92.54%
DOI
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4,167 Scalable Distributed Stream Join Processing 2015 SIGMOD 6.3919506e-05
4,273 Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation 2020 SIGMOD 6.3003864e-05
4,775 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 5.9315784e-05
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6,507 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.0337166e-05
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42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073498298
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447 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022900171
588 Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins 1992 VLDB 0.00019604754
960 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015012242
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