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: 5202
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 0.00012108907
Overall Rank: 1,117 | 92.34%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882949

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Authors

1. Feng Li (Microsoft)
2. Sudipto Das (Microsoft)
3. Manoj Syamala (Microsoft)
4. Vivek R. Narasayya (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod16,
        title = {{Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA}},
        author = {Li, Feng and Das, Sudipto and Syamala, Manoj and Narasayya, Vivek R.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882949},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882949},
        year = {2016}
}

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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
1,584	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	0.0001028934
2,034	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	9.2788175e-05
2,343	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.7213493e-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
3,100	Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers	2020	CIDR	7.7608255e-05
3,761	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	7.1450129e-05
4,677	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	6.5698961e-05
5,109	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	6.3615847e-05
6,277	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.9288764e-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
7,135	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	5.6940523e-05
7,458	AHEAD: Adaptable Data Hardening for On-the-Fly Hardware Error Detection during Database Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	5.6121707e-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
9,007	Experimental Evaluation of Optimizing Memory Consumption in SAP HANA Using PEOopt	2025	SIGMOD	5.3338237e-05
9,890	Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing	2025	CIDR	5.1997534e-05
10,545	SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,902	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,200	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	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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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
409	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.00018985783
523	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017133451
892	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013376761
902	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013328979
1,076	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012270109
1,490	SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00010595269

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