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Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture

Summary: SIMD-optimized MergeSort with cache-efficient multiway merging achieves 3.3× scalar speedup and sorts 64M floats in <0.5s on a 4-core CPU. Analytical and cycle-accurate studies show scalability across SIMD widths and 32+ cores. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9947
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0001468812
Overall Rank
712 | 95.12%
DOI
10.14778/1454159.1454171

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BibTeX Citation

@article{chhugani_vldb08,
        title = {{Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture}},
        author = {Chhugani, Jatin and Nguyen, Anthony D. and Lee, Victor W. and Macy, William and Hagog, Mostafa and Chen, Yen-Kuang and Baransi, Akram and Kumar, Sanjeev and Dubey, Pradeep},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1313--1324},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454171},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454171},
        year = {2008}
}

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252 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023242719
278 FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022476841
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018725853
634 Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015533814
678 Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015061068
805 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00013891999
922 Data Processing on FPGAs 2009 VLDB 0.00013207382
941 Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013078348
1,177 A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011808761
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1,761 ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout 2015 SIGMOD 9.8154969e-05
1,822 PALM: Parallel Architecture-Friendly Latch-Free Modifications to B+ Trees on Many-Core Processors 2011 VLDB 9.6765747e-05
2,667 A Memory Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Radix Sort on GPUs 2017 SIGMOD 8.2756346e-05
3,212 Faster Set Intersection with SIMD instructions by Reducing Branch Mispredictions 2015 VLDB 7.6328776e-05
3,368 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 7.4713287e-05
4,021 PARADIS: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for In-place Radix Sort 2015 VLDB 6.9501893e-05
4,177 SIMD- and Cache-Friendly Algorithm for Sorting an Array of Structures 2015 VLDB 6.8499317e-05
4,603 The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.6105578e-05
5,536 Database Processing-in-Memory: An Experimental Study 2020 VLDB 6.1822684e-05
6,040 FPGA: What's in it for a Database? 2009 SIGMOD 5.9977597e-05
6,113 Patience is a Virtue: Revisiting Merge and Sort on Modern Processors 2014 SIGMOD 5.9715554e-05
6,161 Data Partitioning for In-Memory Systems: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities 2019 CIDR 5.9537202e-05
6,601 What Is the Price for Joining Securely? Benchmarking Equi-Joins in Trusted Execution Environments 2022 VLDB 5.8246671e-05
6,665 MorphStore: Analytical Query Engine with a Holistic Compression-Enabled Processing Model 2020 VLDB 5.8089595e-05
7,242 Fast Multi-Column Sorting in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2016 SIGMOD 5.6641994e-05
7,370 Efficient Top-K Query Processing on Massively Parallel Hardware 2018 SIGMOD 5.6313494e-05
7,774 Building Advanced SQL Analytics From Low-Level Plan Operators 2021 SIGMOD 5.5468469e-05
7,820 Parallelizing Intra-Window Join on Multicores: An Experimental Study 2021 SIGMOD 5.5373345e-05
8,238 Interleaved Multi-Vectorizing 2020 VLDB 5.4599422e-05
8,636 Adaptive Code Generation for Data-Intensive Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.3954959e-05
8,685 Efficient Evaluation of Arbitrarily-Framed Holistic SQL Aggregates and Window Functions 2022 SIGMOD 5.3849617e-05
9,082 An Application-Specific Instruction Set for Accelerating Set-Oriented Database Primitives 2014 SIGMOD 5.3251649e-05
9,333 Efficiently Joining Large Relations on Multi-GPU Systems 2025 VLDB 5.2887551e-05
10,409 TQEx: Tensor-based Query Engine Enhanced by Bridging the Gap 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,194 Enabling Adaptive Sampling for Intra-Window Join: Simultaneously Optimizing Quantity and Quality 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,579 Origami: A High-Performance Mergesort Framework 2022 VLDB 5.093636e-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
305 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021872796
2,139 CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 9.1061768e-05
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