Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA

Summary: Leverages remote memory via RDMA to augment SMP RDBMS when local RAM is insufficient. Introduces a lightweight remote-memory file API and end-to-end SQL Server integration, enabling remote-memory tiering, caching, and direct data access; delivers 3x–10x throughput/latency for short reads/writes and 2x–100x for TPC-H/DS queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5141
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 0.00011781099
Overall Rank: 1,474 | 89.76%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882949

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1,503	BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications	2017	SIGMOD	0.0001161148
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
2,337	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	9.0092781e-05
2,545	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	8.5616487e-05
2,829	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.0542308e-05
3,117	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.5400979e-05
3,428	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.1002401e-05
3,932	Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers	2020	CIDR	6.6190727e-05
4,523	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1102901e-05
5,256	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	5.5990529e-05
5,498	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	5.4738497e-05
5,567	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.4288714e-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
7,136	AHEAD: Adaptable Data Hardening for On-the-Fly Hardware Error Detection during Database Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	4.8171467e-05
7,336	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	4.7533353e-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
8,647	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	4.4720005e-05
8,845	Experimental Evaluation of Optimizing Memory Consumption in SAP HANA Using PEOopt	2025	SIGMOD	4.4331879e-05
9,742	Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing	2025	CIDR	4.2856385e-05
10,257	SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,658	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,992	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	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
444	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.0002303513
661	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00018488168
1,120	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013846732
1,196	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013378379
1,397	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012208385
1,815	SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00010439702

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