An Application-Specific Instruction Set for Accelerating Set-Oriented Database Primitives

Summary: Proposes an application-specific instruction set extension for set-oriented DB primitives to realize a customizable database processor. Demonstrates ~960× energy savings vs high-end x86 with comparable throughput, enabled by tailor-made hardware for data-management workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4807
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 4.427232e-05
Overall Rank: 8,927 | 37.90%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2593677

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10,893	Program your (custom) SIMD instruction set on FPGA in C++	2024	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,708	RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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305	SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units	2009	VLDB	0.00028248614
343	Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions	2002	SIGMOD	0.00026768139
381	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00024873637
404	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024143076
946	Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture	2008	VLDB	0.0001513324
950	Data Processing on FPGAs	2009	VLDB	0.00015108484
1,232	Bucket Spreading Parallel Hash: A New, Robust, Parallel Hash Join Method for Data Skew in the Super Database Computer (SDC)	1990	VLDB	0.00013147188
1,694	How Soccer Players Would do Stream Joins	2011	SIGMOD	0.00010893764
1,760	CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor	2007	VLDB	0.00010651836
2,272	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	9.1334837e-05
2,464	Fast Set Intersection in Memory	2011	VLDB	8.7524354e-05
3,717	Lazy, Adaptive RID-List Intersection, and Its Application to Index Anding	2007	SIGMOD	6.8210203e-05

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