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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
5141
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00013376761
Overall Rank
892 | 93.89%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2750547

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{barthels_sigmod15,
        title = {{Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA}},
        author = {Barthels, Claude and Loesing, Simon and Alonso, Gustavo and Kossmann, Donald},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2750547},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2750547},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,117 Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012108907
1,238 BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011543368
1,342 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011098147
1,345 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00011090483
2,212 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 8.9411432e-05
2,343 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.7213493e-05
2,344 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.7199754e-05
2,566 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 8.4116562e-05
2,926 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9549783e-05
3,080 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.7746739e-05
3,088 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7694381e-05
3,100 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 7.7608255e-05
3,196 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 7.6467469e-05
3,227 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 7.6217889e-05
3,761 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 7.1450129e-05
3,868 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.0614899e-05
4,103 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8993506e-05
4,535 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 6.6419266e-05
4,829 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 6.4882686e-05
4,840 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.483442e-05
5,587 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1596139e-05
6,405 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.8855242e-05
6,686 CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs 2022 CIDR 5.8029143e-05
7,101 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 5.7032817e-05
7,814 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.5389009e-05
7,899 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5195553e-05
8,357 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.4446759e-05
8,596 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.4051515e-05
9,605 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.247855e-05
9,633 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 5.2434488e-05
9,668 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 5.2392753e-05
11,076 CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,182 Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,556 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,558 KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks 2022 SIGMOD 5.093636e-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
52 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00041107291
74 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00037330605
209 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024932174
242 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00023604323
252 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023242719
360 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020182846
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018725853
843 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00013666161
1,974 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.3658402e-05
4,085 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.9149518e-05
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