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: 6097
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.1740574e-05
Overall Rank: 4,449 | 69.09%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452816

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2,991	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	7.7701741e-05
4,523	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1102901e-05
5,256	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	5.5990529e-05
6,220	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1446966e-05
7,816	Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice	2023	VLDB	4.6402756e-05
8,004	Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	4.6048388e-05
8,647	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	4.4720005e-05
9,458	DPDPU: Data Processing with DPUs	2025	CIDR	4.3344018e-05
9,528	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	4.3259125e-05
9,925	Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing	2022	CIDR	4.2503199e-05
11,154	Data Pipes: Declarative Control over Data Movement	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,155	Pipeline Group Optimization on Disaggregated Systems	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,157	Templating Shuffles	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
852	A Taxonomy and Performance Model of Data Skew Effects in Parallel Joins	1991	VLDB	0.00015896035
1,196	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013378379
1,351	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012439556
1,397	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012208385
1,813	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010452333
1,834	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010364718
2,545	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	8.5616487e-05
3,117	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.5400979e-05
3,428	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.1002401e-05
6,297	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.1192861e-05
6,418	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.063249e-05

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