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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rene Mueller (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich)
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}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,139 | Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.0001185547 |
| 3,974 | TCUDB: Accelerating Database with Tensor Processors | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.8848857e-05 |
| 11,768 | CORE-Sketch: On Exact Computation of Median Absolute Deviation with Limited Space | 2023 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 287 | Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00022001327 |
| 304 | GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00021598803 |
| 723 | Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00014507399 |
| 1,454 | Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00010596726 |
| 1,458 | Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00010583148 |
| 2,161 | CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor | 2007 | VLDB | 8.9349355e-05 |
| 2,694 | Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor | 2007 | VLDB | 8.1197353e-05 |
| 4,099 | Fast Data Stream Algorithms using Associative Memories | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.8061151e-05 |
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