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Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA

Summary: Rack-scale in-memory joins implemented with RDMA; first detailed analysis of parallel hash joins using RDMA. Analytical model validated across two network types, with experiments showing accurate predictions and strong distributed join performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5079
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00013281657
Overall Rank
1,206 | 91.62%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2750547

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2,568 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.5239227e-05
2,840 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.0349523e-05
3,176 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 7.436745e-05
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3,327 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 7.2205738e-05
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3,592 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 6.9406675e-05
3,841 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 6.7103563e-05
4,002 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 6.545665e-05
4,247 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 6.325596e-05
4,483 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 6.148188e-05
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5,178 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 5.6438393e-05
5,247 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 5.6057839e-05
5,512 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 5.4665318e-05
6,223 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 5.1496398e-05
6,422 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.0681154e-05
7,083 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 4.8402797e-05
7,092 CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs 2022 CIDR 4.8370308e-05
8,001 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 4.6092573e-05
8,094 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 4.5867812e-05
8,428 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.5158105e-05
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9,527 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 4.3300608e-05
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11,358 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00086459551
81 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00055548574
232 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00032122485
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
540 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.0002063443
585 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019706145
1,074 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014260096
2,526 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 8.5968612e-05
4,610 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.0516573e-05
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