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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
8439
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
5.8892345e-05
Overall Rank
4,826 | 66.47%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
661 Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2 2006 VLDB 0.00018488168
1,524 Sorting And Indexing With Partitioned B-Trees 2003 CIDR 0.00011509464
5,987 External Memory Algorithms 1998 PODS 5.2399221e-05
8,006 Buffering and Read-Ahead Strategies for External Mergesort 1998 VLDB 4.6042993e-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
85 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00053652634
1,861 An Adaptive Hash Join Algorithm for Multiuser Environments 1990 VLDB 0.00010297093
3,185 Partially Preemptible Hash Joins 1993 SIGMOD 7.4241724e-05
4,149 Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins 1994 VLDB 6.4043572e-05
4,736 Memory-Adaptive External Sorting 1993 VLDB 5.9537256e-05
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