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: 0.00012219425
Overall Rank: 1,060 | 92.88%
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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1,242	BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011378275
1,339	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.0001097043
1,343	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	0.00010959797
1,366	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010908555
2,033	Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching	2018	VLDB	9.1538227e-05
2,351	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.5944808e-05
2,802	Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores	2017	VLDB	7.9866934e-05
2,881	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.9114212e-05
3,136	Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers	2020	CIDR	7.605704e-05
3,827	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.9972263e-05
4,202	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	6.7343438e-05
4,296	Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache	2022	VLDB	6.6774301e-05
6,282	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.821952e-05
6,797	CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs	2022	CIDR	5.6784239e-05
7,179	CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA	2021	SIGMOD	5.5908448e-05
7,243	SaS: SSD as SQL Database System	2021	VLDB	5.5751486e-05
7,455	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	5.5210654e-05
7,497	AHEAD: Adaptable Data Hardening for On-the-Fly Hardware Error Detection during Database Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	5.5078696e-05
8,419	Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory	2024	SIGMOD	5.3328741e-05
8,760	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	5.2822161e-05
9,178	Experimental Evaluation of Optimizing Memory Consumption in SAP HANA Using PEOopt	2025	SIGMOD	5.2116787e-05
9,913	High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to Use It	2026	VLDB	5.1079647e-05
10,079	Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing	2025	CIDR	5.0831474e-05
10,737	SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,307	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,548	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	2024	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,871	Scaling Equi-Joins	2022	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,873	KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks	2022	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
410	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.00018796567
508	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017083245
890	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013241413
893	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013213905
1,028	High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks	2016	VLDB	0.00012416417
1,399	SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00010778545

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