Data Processing on FPGAs

Summary: Data processing operators on FPGAs in heterogeneous many-core systems. Asynchronous sorting-network model, FPGA-centric design, and integration strategy enable FPGA acceleration with competitive CPU performance and lower power for streaming data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2e066671736faf81
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00012951355
Overall Rank: 941 | 93.68%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687730

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rene Mueller (ETH Zurich)
2. Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mueller_vldb09,
        title = {{Data Processing on FPGAs}},
        author = {Mueller, Rene and Teubner, Jens and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687730},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687730},
        year = {2009}
}

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857	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013422539
899	Orthogonal Security With Cipherbase	2013	CIDR	0.00013183669
1,139	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001185547
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2,601	Robust Query Processing in Co-Processor-accelerated Databases	2016	SIGMOD	8.2325291e-05
2,607	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.2260445e-05
3,739	In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.0595382e-05
3,870	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	6.9534718e-05
3,926	Efficient Event Processing through Reconfigurable Hardware for Algorithmic Trading	2010	VLDB	6.9190926e-05
3,934	The Case For Heterogeneous HTAP	2017	CIDR	6.9145781e-05
4,200	Adaptive Work Placement for Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computing Resources	2017	VLDB	6.7378729e-05
4,280	Querying Encrypted Data	2014	SIGMOD	6.6868551e-05
4,881	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.368585e-05
5,135	Ocelot/HyPE: Optimized Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware	2014	VLDB	6.2568126e-05
5,593	Datalog and Emerging Applications: An Interactive Tutorial	2011	SIGMOD	6.0707344e-05
6,058	Towards Energy-Efficient Database Cluster Design	2012	VLDB	5.8979077e-05
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8,583	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	5.3086664e-05
8,948	Glacier: A Query-to-Hardware Compiler	2010	SIGMOD	5.2529338e-05
9,047	Scotch: Generating FPGA-Accelerators for Sketching at Line Rate	2021	VLDB	5.2306775e-05
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9,669	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	5.142891e-05
10,451	Discovery of Denial Constraints with Hardware Acceleration	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,379	An Experimental Evaluation of Datacenter Workloads On Low-Power Embedded Micro Servers	2016	VLDB	4.9769913e-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
27	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00051576613
127	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030414379
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
390	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00019265472
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
2,161	CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor	2007	VLDB	8.9349355e-05
2,220	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	8.8116311e-05
2,629	Boosting XML Filtering with a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture	2009	CIDR	8.2018799e-05

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