Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA

Summary: Leverages remote memory via RDMA to augment SMP RDBMS when local RAM is insufficient. Introduces a lightweight remote-memory file API and end-to-end SQL Server integration, enabling remote-memory tiering, caching, and direct data access; delivers 3x–10x throughput/latency for short reads/writes and 2x–100x for TPC-H/DS queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h06bbb72082607c44
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 0.00012224884
Overall Rank: 1,059 | 92.89%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882949

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Feng Li (Microsoft)
2. Sudipto Das (Microsoft)
3. Manoj Syamala (Microsoft)
4. Vivek R. Narasayya (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod16,
        title = {{Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA}},
        author = {Li, Feng and Das, Sudipto and Syamala, Manoj and Narasayya, Vivek R.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882949},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882949},
        year = {2016}
}

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1,241	BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011378254
1,339	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010975458
1,343	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	0.00010963588
1,366	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010912114
2,030	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	9.1579506e-05
2,350	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.5984201e-05
2,802	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.9903139e-05
2,879	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.9150972e-05
3,135	Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers	2020	CIDR	7.6092468e-05
3,826	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.9984204e-05
4,201	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	6.7375318e-05
4,296	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	6.6805238e-05
6,279	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.8247094e-05
6,792	CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs	2022	CIDR	5.6810904e-05
7,175	CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA	2021	SIGMOD	5.5934912e-05
7,240	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	5.577789e-05
7,451	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	5.5236802e-05
7,491	AHEAD: Adaptable Data Hardening for On-the-Fly Hardware Error Detection during Database Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	5.5104779e-05
8,473	Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory	2024	SIGMOD	5.3345353e-05
8,752	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	5.2847178e-05
9,168	Experimental Evaluation of Optimizing Memory Consumption in SAP HANA Using PEOopt	2025	SIGMOD	5.214147e-05
9,906	High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to Use It	2026	VLDB	5.1103839e-05
10,074	Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing	2025	CIDR	5.0855548e-05
10,727	SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,299	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,542	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,865	Scaling Equi-Joins	2022	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,867	KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks	2022	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
416	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.00018658244
508	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017089907
889	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013247362
893	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013220089
1,028	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012422084
1,398	SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00010783386

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