A Low Communication Sort Algorithm for a Parallel Database Machine
Summary: Introduces a fully parallel distributed sort spanning local sorting, merging, and return to a host, while reducing interprocessor communication. Implementation, measurements, and validated scalability modeling—including skewed data distributions—demonstrate practicality on parallel database machines. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Raymond A. Lorie (IBM)
- 2. Honesty C. Young (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lorie_vldb89,
title = {{A Low Communication Sort Algorithm for a Parallel Database Machine}},
author = {Lorie, Raymond A. and Young, Honesty C.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '89},
year = {1989}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 215 | AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00024507963 |
| 1,568 | Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Subset Join Predicates | 1997 | VLDB | 0.0001034191 |
| 3,842 | FastSort: A Distributed Single-Input Single-Output External Sort | 1990 | SIGMOD | 7.0803078e-05 |
| 6,586 | Diag-Join: An Opportunistic Join Algorithm for 1:N Relationships | 1998 | VLDB | 5.8345497e-05 |
| 6,699 | Percentile Finding Algorithm for Multiple Sorted Runs | 1989 | VLDB | 5.7982932e-05 |
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