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FPGA: What's in it for a Database?

Summary: Examines FPGA as a new processing unit in commodity DBMS, outlining the FPGA development cycle, design guidelines, and potential performance/energy benefits. Identifies integration challenges and hardware limitations, aiming to spur database research toward FPGA-accelerated workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h1ab94242c2e372fa
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2009
Pagerank
5.8478403e-05
Overall Rank
6,169 | 58.65%
DOI
10.1145/1559845.1559965

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mueller_sigmod09,
        title = {{FPGA: What's in it for a Database?}},
        author = {Mueller, Rene and Teubner, Jens},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559965},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559965},
        year = {2009}
}

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11,812 CORE-Sketch: On Exact Computation of Median Absolute Deviation with Limited Space 2023 VLDB 4.9605343e-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
289 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00021955394
304 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021569633
722 Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture 2008 VLDB 0.00014470465
1,454 Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors 2004 SIGMOD 0.0001058211
1,461 Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation 2008 VLDB 0.00010557729
2,173 CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 8.9089575e-05
2,704 Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 8.0950719e-05
4,115 Fast Data Stream Algorithms using Associative Memories 2007 SIGMOD 6.785832e-05
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