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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
4893
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
8.6052941e-05
Overall Rank
2,518 | 82.51%
DOI
10.1145/2558555.2610521

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1,196 Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013378379
1,351 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012439556
1,397 High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks 2016 VLDB 0.00012208385
1,938 From Theory to Practice: Efficient Join Query Evaluation in a Parallel Database System 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010025547
3,428 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.1002401e-05
4,000 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 6.5419402e-05
5,961 Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases 2015 SIGMOD 5.2510172e-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
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
8,075 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 4.5888845e-05
8,777 Accelerate Distributed Joins with Predicate Transfer 2025 SIGMOD 4.4492064e-05
9,002 Chasing Similarity: Distribution-aware Aggregation Scheduling 2019 VLDB 4.4077753e-05
9,143 Design and Analysis of a Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm: A Case Study with UPMEM DIMMs 2023 SIGMOD 4.381112e-05
9,442 BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins 2017 VLDB 4.3384032e-05
9,490 INEv: In-Network Evaluation for Event Stream Processing 2023 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
9,705 Distributed Numerical and Machine Learning Computations via Two-Phase Execution of Aggregated Join Trees 2021 VLDB 4.2951758e-05
9,837 Efficiently Joining Large Relations on Multi-GPU Systems 2025 VLDB 4.269939e-05
11,360 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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 0.001426258
20 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086163998
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066322421
88 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.0005262025
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035240105
241 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.00031314629
307 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00028226342
315 Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System 1978 SIGMOD 0.00028022592
350 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00026368305
403 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00024176677
584 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019700451
594 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019515008
932 Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015227954
1,073 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014255717
1,610 A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011155922
2,369 CS2: A New Database Synopsis for Query Estimation 2013 SIGMOD 8.9462051e-05
3,660 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 6.8683099e-05
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