Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems

Summary: Predicate-based reference partitioning (PREF) co-partitions tables by join predicates to cut traffic beyond replication. Automatic design algorithms maximize data locality from schema/data and workload, outperforming prior partitioning on diverse schemata. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5000
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 7.642132e-05
Overall Rank: 3,200 | 78.05%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2723718

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Authors

1. Erfan Zamanian (Brown University)
2. Carsten Binnig (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University; Brown University)
3. Abdallah Salama (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zamanian_sigmod15,
        title = {{Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems}},
        author = {Zamanian, Erfan and Binnig, Carsten and Salama, Abdallah},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2723718},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2723718},
        year = {2015}
}

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976	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012864533
1,345	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00011090483
2,363	Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas	2017	VLDB	8.6873235e-05
2,499	Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases	2020	SIGMOD	8.4993549e-05
2,868	SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics	2017	CIDR	8.0156936e-05
3,137	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	7.7204167e-05
3,761	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	7.1450129e-05
4,456	AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins	2017	VLDB	6.692321e-05
4,607	Adaptive NUMA-aware data placement and task scheduling for analytical workloads in main-memory column-stores	2017	VLDB	6.6088324e-05
5,725	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.108451e-05
5,947	Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.0323707e-05
6,279	Fast and Effective Distribution-Key Recommendation for Amazon Redshift	2020	VLDB	5.9286872e-05
6,770	PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory	2024	SIGMOD	5.7783709e-05
7,311	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.6491618e-05
7,585	Query Centric Partitioning and Allocation for Partially Replicated Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	5.5912479e-05
7,913	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
7,998	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	5.5093728e-05
8,042	Grep: A Graph Learning Based Database Partitioning System	2023	SIGMOD	5.5015896e-05
9,100	Chasing Similarity: Distribution-aware Aggregation Scheduling	2019	VLDB	5.3250075e-05
9,159	Hybrid Row-Column Partitioning in Teradata	2016	VLDB	5.3114559e-05
11,095	LASER: Buffer-Aware Learned Query Scheduling in Master-Standby Databases	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
126	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00030779127
246	Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database	2002	SIGMOD	0.00023457421
425	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018704491
471	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001793564
652	An Overview of The System Software of A Parallel Relational Database Machine GRACE	1986	VLDB	0.00015304915
995	Multi-Dimensional Database Allocation for Parallel Data Warehouses	2000	VLDB	0.00012758724
1,852	Automated Partitioning Design in Parallel Database Systems	2011	SIGMOD	9.6134443e-05
2,666	Supporting Table Partitioning By Reference in Oracle	2008	SIGMOD	8.2764713e-05
3,199	Query Optimization Techniques for Partitioned Tables	2011	SIGMOD	7.6423984e-05

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