Towards a Hybrid Design for Fast Query Processing in DB2 with BLU Acceleration Using Graphical Processing Units: A Technology Demonstration

Summary: Hybrid DB2 BLU acceleration via Nvidia GPUs with selective offload; CPU handles rest. Custom GPU kernels for group-by/aggregation; optimizer metadata enables dynamic kernel choice; benchmarks show up to 2x speedups on workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5195
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.3116062e-05
Overall Rank: 5,826 | 59.51%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2903735

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8,846	Scaling your Hybrid CPU-GPU DBMS to Multiple GPUs	2024	VLDB	4.432948e-05
9,970	Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
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241	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00031314629
382	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00024888997
771	Relational Joins on Graphics Processors	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016813054
932	Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015227954
1,685	Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors	2004	SIGMOD	0.0001090924
2,523	Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture	2013	VLDB	8.599693e-05
2,890	Database Compression on Graphics Processors	2010	VLDB	7.9586083e-05
3,698	Why it is time for a HyPE: A Hybrid Query Processing Engine for Efficient GPU Coprocessing in DBMS	2013	VLDB	6.8278944e-05
4,678	OmniDB: Towards Portable and Efficient Query Processing on Parallel CPU/GPU Architectures	2013	VLDB	5.9988623e-05
5,584	Ocelot/HyPE: Optimized Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware	2014	VLDB	5.4201842e-05
7,038	Demonstrating Efficient Query Processing in Heterogeneous Environments	2014	SIGMOD	4.8500241e-05

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