Analysis of Dynamic Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel Shared Nothing Database Systems

Summary: Dynamic load-balancing for parallel shared-nothing DBs enabling inter- and intra-transaction parallelism via join-redistribution. Multi-user study across homogeneous/heterogeneous workloads evaluating the optimal number and selection of join processors. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8125
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 6.4189164e-05
Overall Rank: 4,135 | 71.24%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Erhard Rahm
2. Robert Marek

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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285	Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database	2002	SIGMOD	0.0002899128
1,354	Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	0.00012408166
4,214	Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	6.3541e-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
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00046764513
197	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00035201758
232	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00032122485
588	Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins	1992	VLDB	0.00019604754
807	Exploiting Inter-Operation Parallelism in XPRS	1992	SIGMOD	0.00016434207
861	A Taxonomy and Performance Model of Data Skew Effects in Parallel Joins	1991	VLDB	0.00015848554
1,063	Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00014362773
2,043	Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management	1990	VLDB	9.695642e-05
2,378	Efficient and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions	1992	SIGMOD	8.9397925e-05
2,462	A Performance Analysis of Alternative Multi-Attribute Declustering Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	8.7589902e-05
3,108	Parallelism in a Main-Memory DBMS: The performance of PRISMA/DB	1992	VLDB	7.5501593e-05
5,693	On Affinity Based Routing in Multi-System Data Sharing	1986	VLDB	5.3682572e-05

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