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: 5256
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.2720812e-05
Overall Rank: 5,308 | 63.59%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2903735

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sina Meraji (IBM)
2. Berni Schiefer (IBM)
3. Lan Pham (IBM)
4. Lee Chu (IBM)
5. Peter Kokosielis (IBM)
6. Adam Storm (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meraji_sigmod16,
        title = {{Towards a Hybrid Design for Fast Query Processing in DB2 with BLU Acceleration Using Graphical Processing Units: A Technology Demonstration}},
        author = {Meraji, Sina and Schiefer, Berni and Pham, Lan and Chu, Lee and Kokosielis, Peter and Storm, Adam},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2903735},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2903735},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,243	Orchestrating Data Placement and Query Execution in Heterogeneous CPU-GPU DBMS	2022	VLDB	6.8073248e-05
4,376	Adaptive Work Placement for Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computing Resources	2017	VLDB	6.7364442e-05
8,808	Scaling your Hybrid CPU-GPU DBMS to Multiple GPUs	2024	VLDB	5.3661351e-05
10,119	Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,541	Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,691	Flux: Unifying Heterogeneous Infrastructure for Alibaba AnalyticDB	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,985	Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,978	Template Skycube Algorithms for Heterogeneous Parallelism on Multicore and GPU Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
165	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00027693424
278	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022476841
305	GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00021872796
631	Relational Joins on Graphics Processors	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015591241
678	Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015061068
1,452	Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors	2004	SIGMOD	0.00010745803
2,140	Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture	2013	VLDB	9.0991487e-05
2,232	Database Compression on Graphics Processors	2010	VLDB	8.8970926e-05
3,178	Why it is time for a HyPE: A Hybrid Query Processing Engine for Efficient GPU Coprocessing in DBMS	2013	VLDB	7.6630901e-05
4,478	OmniDB: Towards Portable and Efficient Query Processing on Parallel CPU/GPU Architectures	2013	VLDB	6.6789258e-05
5,092	Ocelot/HyPE: Optimized Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware	2014	VLDB	6.3669454e-05
6,825	Demonstrating Efficient Query Processing in Heterogeneous Environments	2014	SIGMOD	5.7622696e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	823	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB
2	3,178	Why it is time for a HyPE: A Hybrid Query Processing Engine for Efficient GPU Coprocessing in DBMS	2013	VLDB
3	2,741	Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations	2004	VLDB
4	7,113	GPUQP: Query Co-Processing Using Graphics Processors	2007	SIGMOD
5	8,487	A Case for Graphics-driven Query Processing	2023	VLDB
6	1,466	A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics	2020	SIGMOD
7	10,985	Scaling GPU-Accelerated Databases beyond GPU Memory Size	2025	VLDB
8	2,504	Concurrent Analytical Query Processing with GPUs	2014	VLDB
9	1,452	Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors	2004	SIGMOD
10	165	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB