Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs

Summary: Glacier, an FPGA-based query compiler, maps continuous stream operators (selection, aggregation, grouping, windowing) to modular logic circuits. Placing the FPGA in the NIC-to-CPU data path yields >1M tuples/s directly from the network, reducing CPU transfer overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9921
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.1334837e-05
Overall Rank: 2,272 | 84.20%
DOI: -

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950	Data Processing on FPGAs	2009	VLDB	0.00015108484
1,881	Ibex - An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	0.00010217568
3,791	Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs	2010	VLDB	6.7624761e-05
3,945	Efficient Event Processing through Reconfigurable Hardware for Algorithmic Trading	2010	VLDB	6.6033808e-05
4,385	Flexible Query Processor on FPGAs	2013	VLDB	6.2331718e-05
4,484	The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?	2013	CIDR	6.1475055e-05
5,123	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	5.6796998e-05
6,964	A Morsel-Driven Query Execution Engine for Heterogeneous Multi-Cores	2019	VLDB	4.8815971e-05
7,038	Demonstrating Efficient Query Processing in Heterogeneous Environments	2014	SIGMOD	4.8546906e-05
7,385	Less Watts, More Performance: An Intelligent Storage Engine for Data Appliances	2013	SIGMOD	4.7445608e-05
8,202	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	4.5598793e-05
8,443	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	4.5119257e-05
8,518	Glacier: A Query-to-Hardware Compiler	2010	SIGMOD	4.4943094e-05
8,717	Scotch: Generating FPGA-Accelerators for Sketching at Line Rate	2021	VLDB	4.4614498e-05
8,927	An Application-Specific Instruction Set for Accelerating Set-Oriented Database Primitives	2014	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05
9,882	DASH: Asynchronous Hardware Data Processing Services	2023	CIDR	4.2643674e-05
11,530	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,708	RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt	2018	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,165	SwissBox: An Architecture for Data Processing Appliances	2011	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
239	GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00031617428
639	Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018791492
726	Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager	2003	VLDB	0.00017511209
2,763	Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor	2007	VLDB	8.1579306e-05
3,860	Fast Data Stream Algorithms using Associative Memories	2007	SIGMOD	6.6902516e-05
6,702	Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100	2007	CIDR	4.9559916e-05

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