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Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins

Summary: Presents a skew-handling framework for parallel joins using a portfolio of four algorithms chosen from a sample. Virtual processor range partitioning excels under high skew; hybrid hash wins under low/no skew. Gamma-based results deliver first implementation skew metrics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8054
Venue
VLDB
Year
1992
Pagerank
0.00020369531
Overall Rank
548 | 96.20%
DOI
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538 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020632609
584 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019700451
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923 Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join 1996 SIGMOD 0.00015254021
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1,339 SkewTune: Mitigating Skew in MapReduce Applications 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012492978
1,780 Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine 1998 VLDB 0.00010558417
1,919 Handling Data Skew in Parallel Joins in Shared-Nothing Systems 2008 SIGMOD 0.00010097452
2,416 Dynamic Load Balancing in Hierarchical Parallel Database Systems 1996 VLDB 8.8520203e-05
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3,526 Distributed Data Deduplication 2016 VLDB 7.0056559e-05
3,896 Estimation of Query-Result Distribution and its Application in Parallel-Join Load Balancing 1996 VLDB 6.6526869e-05
3,901 Using Shared Virtual Memory for Parallel Join Processing 1993 SIGMOD 6.6481179e-05
4,128 Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation 2014 VLDB 6.4214449e-05
4,134 Analysis of Dynamic Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel Shared Nothing Database Systems 1993 VLDB 6.4139887e-05
4,399 A Framework for Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms 2020 PODS 6.2134435e-05
5,047 Run-Time Operator State Spilling for Memory Intensive Long-Running Queries 2006 SIGMOD 5.7321615e-05
5,541 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 5.4501856e-05
5,576 Efficient outer join data skew handling in parallel DBMS 2009 VLDB 5.4251727e-05
5,961 Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases 2015 SIGMOD 5.2510172e-05
6,212 Skew Handling Techniques in Sort-Merge Join 2002 SIGMOD 5.1499439e-05
6,322 Revisiting Pipelined Parallelism in Multi-Join Query Processing 2005 VLDB 5.1074949e-05
6,523 The 3D Hash Join: Building On Non-Unique Join Attributes 2022 CIDR 5.0228804e-05
6,618 Near-Optimal Distributed Band-Joins through Recursive Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 4.9864636e-05
7,154 Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation 2018 SIGMOD 4.8107765e-05
7,842 NOCAP: Near-Optimal Correlation-Aware Partitioning Joins 2023 SIGMOD 4.6336361e-05
7,914 Resource Bricolage for Parallel Database Systems 2015 VLDB 4.6136905e-05
8,458 Topology-aware Parallel Data Processing: Models, Algorithms and Systems at Scale 2020 CIDR 4.5013189e-05
8,985 SpongeFiles: Mitigating Data Skew in MapReduce Using Distributed Memory 2014 SIGMOD 4.4129993e-05
9,002 Chasing Similarity: Distribution-aware Aggregation Scheduling 2019 VLDB 4.4077753e-05
10,498 HoneyComb: A Parallel Worst-Case Optimal Join on Multicores 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,996 SPID-Join: A Skew-resistant Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm Exploiting the Bank- and Rank-level Parallelisms of DIMMs 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,334 The White-Box Adversarial Data Stream Model 2022 PODS 4.1905499e-05
11,360 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,805 Runtime Optimization of Join Location in Parallel Data Management Systems 2017 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,109 Optimization Strategies for A/B Testing on HADOOP 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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