A Study of Sort Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines

Summary: Analysis of internal and external sorting on general multiprocessors, replacing comparison-exchange with B-way merges. Introduces modified block bitonic sort, combining pipelining and parallel internal sorting; fastest broadly and best exploiting extra buffer memory. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7938
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 5.5642777e-05
Overall Rank: 7,705 | 47.14%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Jai Menon (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{menon_vldb86,
        title = {{A Study of Sort Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines}},
        author = {Menon, Jai},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,568	Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates	1997	VLDB	0.0001034191
6,586	Diag-Join: An Opportunistic Join Algorithm for 1:N Relationships	1998	VLDB	5.8345497e-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
80	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00036536643
2,170	Query Execution in DIRECT	1979	SIGMOD	9.042724e-05

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