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Dynamic Memory Adjustment for External Mergesort

Summary: Dynamic memory adjustment for external mergesort enables run-time tuning of in-memory space to adapt to unknown input size. A concurrent-sorts memory-allocation policy improves throughput and latency under contention by limiting parallelism. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8438
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
5.8924168e-05
Overall Rank
4,832 | 66.39%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
663 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00018469455
1,524 Sorting And Indexing With Partitioned B-Trees 2003 CIDR 0.00011516282
5,979 External Memory Algorithms 1998 PODS 5.2450009e-05
8,004 Buffering and Read-Ahead Strategies for External Mergesort 1998 VLDB 4.6085722e-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
84 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00053866006
1,856 An Adaptive Hash Join Algorithm for Multiuser Environments 1990 VLDB 0.00010304993
3,181 Partially Preemptible Hash Joins 1993 SIGMOD 7.4283072e-05
4,149 Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins 1994 VLDB 6.4078379e-05
4,741 Memory-Adaptive External Sorting 1993 VLDB 5.95905e-05
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