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Percentile Finding Algorithm for Multiple Sorted Runs

Summary: Introduces an exact percentile-finding algorithm for multiple sorted runs to enable load-balanced parallel merges in external sort. By removing sort-key skew with an exact percentile method, it improves parallel sort speedup on shared-memory MIMD architectures; analysis and proofs are provided. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7893
Venue
VLDB
Year
1989
Pagerank
5.1650962e-05
Overall Rank
6,176 | 57.08%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,121 Improving the Performance of List Intersection 2009 VLDB 0.00013838956
3,660 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 6.8683099e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
46 Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases 1986 VLDB 0.00071588702
200 A Low Communication Sort Algorithm for a Parallel Database Machine 1989 VLDB 0.00035037646
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