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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
5080
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00013378379
Overall Rank
1,196 | 91.69%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2750547

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1,813 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010452333
1,834 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010364718
2,553 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.5522099e-05
2,829 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.0542308e-05
2,991 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 7.7701741e-05
3,117 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.5400979e-05
3,328 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 7.2136181e-05
3,428 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.1002401e-05
3,588 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 6.9389605e-05
3,829 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 6.7187307e-05
3,932 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 6.6190727e-05
4,000 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 6.5419402e-05
4,449 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 6.1740574e-05
4,523 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.1102901e-05
4,873 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 5.8557568e-05
5,179 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 5.6384436e-05
5,251 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 5.6003972e-05
5,482 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 5.4830927e-05
6,220 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 5.1446966e-05
6,418 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.063249e-05
7,063 CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs 2022 CIDR 4.8397918e-05
7,076 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 4.8369513e-05
8,004 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 4.6048388e-05
8,098 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 4.5824106e-05
8,422 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.5114807e-05
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9,473 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
9,497 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 4.3300131e-05
9,528 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 4.3259125e-05
10,856 CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,971 Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,360 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,362 KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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
21 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00086104592
81 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00055253195
230 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00032145125
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
538 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020632609
584 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019700451
1,073 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014255717
2,518 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 8.6052941e-05
4,609 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.0458679e-05
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