DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks

Summary: DFI introduces a declarative Data Flow Interface that hides RDMA-level complexity, allowing data-processing systems to declare efficient routing on high-speed networks. It lowers programming burden while delivering high performance across diverse data-centric workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6096
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.148188e-05
Overall Rank: 4,483 | 68.82%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452816

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3,176	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	7.436745e-05
4,544	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1000636e-05
5,864	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	5.2975079e-05
6,223	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1496398e-05
7,810	Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice	2023	VLDB	4.6447306e-05
8,001	Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	4.6092573e-05
8,649	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	4.4762914e-05
9,456	DPDPU: Data Processing with DPUs	2025	CIDR	4.3385595e-05
9,527	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	4.3300608e-05
9,926	Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing	2022	CIDR	4.2543961e-05
11,151	Data Pipes: Declarative Control over Data Movement	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,152	Pipeline Group Optimization on Disaggregated Systems	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,154	Templating Shuffles	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
861	A Taxonomy and Performance Model of Data Skew Effects in Parallel Joins	1991	VLDB	0.00015848554
1,206	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013281657
1,361	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012379741
1,409	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012132768
1,819	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010429773
1,852	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010322492
2,572	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	8.519943e-05
3,309	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.2419042e-05
3,443	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.0887214e-05
6,317	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.1140356e-05
6,422	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.0681154e-05

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