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Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs

Summary: Revisits hash join vs sort-merge join on modern multi-core CPUs with optimized parallel implementations. Hash join hits >100M tuples/s on Intel Core i7; sort-merge delivers 47–80M. Analytical models indicate wider SIMD and more cores favor sort-merge, suggesting future architectures may swing dominance away from hash. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9866
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00026368305
Overall Rank
350 | 97.57%
DOI
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382 FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs 2010 SIGMOD 0.00024888997
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417 Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age 2014 SIGMOD 0.00023734582
538 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020632609
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959 Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015034808
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1,252 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00013023834
1,285 Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores 2013 VLDB 0.00012809552
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1,726 Fast Updates on Read-Optimized Databases Using Multi-Core CPUs 2012 VLDB 0.00010734339
1,800 An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010494121
2,298 Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond 2015 PODS 9.0746479e-05
2,390 ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout 2015 SIGMOD 8.9006978e-05
2,518 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 8.6052941e-05
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4,089 In-Cache Query Co-Processing on Coupled CPU-GPU Architectures 2015 VLDB 6.4559891e-05
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4,678 OmniDB: Towards Portable and Efficient Query Processing on Parallel CPU/GPU Architectures 2013 VLDB 5.9988623e-05
5,129 The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 5.6724875e-05
5,179 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 5.6384436e-05
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5,612 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 5.4104818e-05
5,723 MCJoin: A Memory-Constrained Join for Column-Store Main-Memory Databases. 2012 SIGMOD 5.3530385e-05
5,732 FPGA-based Multithreading for In-Memory Hash Joins 2015 CIDR 5.3473621e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066322421
77 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00056488357
81 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00055253195
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235 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00031980259
238 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00031596093
343 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00026756534
711 Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors 2007 VLDB 0.00017724982
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944 Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture 2008 VLDB 0.0001512998
1,077 What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects 2000 VLDB 0.00014224986
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2,768 Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 8.1518597e-05
2,782 Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities 2007 CIDR 8.1278531e-05
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