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: 6158
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 7.0614899e-05
Overall Rank: 3,868 | 73.47%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452816

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Authors

1. Lasse Thostrup (Technical University of Darmstadt)
2. Jan Skrzypczak (Zuse Institute Berlin)
3. Matthias Jasny (Technical University of Darmstadt)
4. Tobias Ziegler (Technical University of Darmstadt)
5. Carsten Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{thostrup_sigmod21,
        title = {{DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks}},
        author = {Thostrup, Lasse and Skrzypczak, Jan and Jasny, Matthias and Ziegler, Tobias and Binnig, Carsten},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452816},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452816},
        year = {2021}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,212	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	8.9411432e-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
5,587	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	6.1596139e-05
7,753	Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice	2023	VLDB	5.5520108e-05
7,814	Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	5.5389009e-05
8,596	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	5.4051515e-05
9,511	DPDPU: Data Processing with DPUs	2025	CIDR	5.25736e-05
9,668	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	5.2392753e-05
10,070	Darwin: Scale-In Stream Processing	2022	CIDR	5.1633991e-05
11,357	Data Pipes: Declarative Control over Data Movement	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-05
11,358	Pipeline Group Optimization on Disaggregated Systems	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-05
11,360	Templating Shuffles	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
811	A Taxonomy and Performance Model of Data Skew Effects in Parallel Joins	1991	VLDB	0.00013859761
892	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013376761
976	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012864533
1,076	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012270109
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
2,034	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	9.2788175e-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
5,725	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.108451e-05
6,405	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.8855242e-05

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