Percentile Finding Algorithm for Multiple Sorted Runs
Summary: An efficient, provably analyzed algorithm finds arbitrary percentiles across many sorted runs exactly. It enables load-balanced parallel merging—even under skewed key distributions—avoiding the speedup loss of approximate partitioning in parallel external sort. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Balakrishna R. Iyer (IBM)
- 2. Gary R. Ricard (IBM)
- 3. Peter J. Varman (Rice University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{iyer_vldb89,
title = {{Percentile Finding Algorithm for Multiple Sorted Runs}},
author = {Iyer, Balakrishna R. and Ricard, Gary R. and Varman, Peter J.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '89},
pages = {135},
year = {1989}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,717 | Improving the Performance of List Intersection | 2009 | VLDB | 9.9327227e-05 |
| 3,368 | CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster | 2012 | SIGMOD | 7.4713287e-05 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 173 | Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00027273858 |
| 1,299 | A Low Communication Sort Algorithm for a Parallel Database Machine | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00011258763 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Semantically Similar Papers
| # | Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 471 | Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD |
| 2 | 3,011 | Design and Evaluation of Parallel Pipelined Join Algorithms | 1987 | SIGMOD |
| 3 | 1,448 | Skew in Parallel Query Processing | 2014 | PODS |
| 4 | 1,596 | Adaptive Parallel Aggregation Algorithms | 1995 | SIGMOD |
| 5 | 12,461 | Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing | 2010 | VLDB |
| 6 | 1,177 | A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort | 2014 | SIGMOD |
| 7 | 3,036 | On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS | 1998 | SIGMOD |
| 8 | 423 | Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems | 2012 | VLDB |
| 9 | 7,705 | A Study of Sort Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines | 1986 | VLDB |
| 10 | 1,299 | A Low Communication Sort Algorithm for a Parallel Database Machine | 1989 | VLDB |