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Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic

Summary: Track Join is a join algorithm that minimizes network traffic by generating an optimal transfer schedule per join key. It tunes CPU-network trade-offs, adapts to locality, and, on real workloads, outperforms hash join on the most expensive queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4892
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
8.5968612e-05
Overall Rank
2,526 | 82.43%
DOI
10.1145/2558555.2610521

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1,206 Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013281657
1,361 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012379741
1,409 High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks 2016 VLDB 0.00012132768
1,939 From Theory to Practice: Efficient Join Query Evaluation in a Parallel Database System 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010025655
3,443 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.0887214e-05
4,002 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 6.545665e-05
5,960 Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases 2015 SIGMOD 5.2559595e-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
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
8,071 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 4.5932891e-05
8,781 Accelerate Distributed Joins with Predicate Transfer 2025 SIGMOD 4.4534753e-05
8,997 Chasing Similarity: Distribution-aware Aggregation Scheduling 2019 VLDB 4.4120041e-05
9,142 Design and Analysis of a Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm: A Case Study with UPMEM DIMMs 2023 SIGMOD 4.3853149e-05
9,437 BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins 2017 VLDB 4.3425552e-05
9,488 INEv: In-Network Evaluation for Event Stream Processing 2023 SIGMOD 4.3341665e-05
9,706 Distributed Numerical and Machine Learning Computations via Two-Phase Execution of Aggregated Join Trees 2021 VLDB 4.2992942e-05
9,838 Efficiently Joining Large Relations on Multi-GPU Systems 2025 VLDB 4.2740344e-05
11,358 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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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
9 Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems 1984 SIGMOD 0.0014279444
21 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086087497
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073498298
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066474881
86 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00052563276
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035261496
241 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.00031420034
305 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00028248614
317 Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System 1978 SIGMOD 0.00027980992
351 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.0002636504
404 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00024143076
585 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019706145
596 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019481482
930 Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015238545
1,074 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014260096
1,607 A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011162682
2,377 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 8.9402115e-05
3,655 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 6.8718304e-05
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