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Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA

Summary: Rack-scale in-memory joins implemented with RDMA; first detailed analysis of parallel hash joins using RDMA. Analytical model validated across two network types, with experiments showing accurate predictions and strong distributed join performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h3181a942d690840a
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00013222753
Overall Rank
885 | 94.07%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2750547

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{barthels_sigmod15,
        title = {{Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA}},
        author = {Barthels, Claude and Loesing, Simon and Alonso, Gustavo and Kossmann, Donald},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2750547},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2750547},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,048 Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012302514
1,232 BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011406847
1,349 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010940559
1,370 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010875068
1,974 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 9.2725837e-05
2,162 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.9192007e-05
2,294 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 8.67775e-05
2,352 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.5790132e-05
2,806 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9657254e-05
2,896 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.8855049e-05
3,011 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7421635e-05
3,056 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 7.689069e-05
3,146 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 7.5819173e-05
3,240 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 7.482039e-05
3,616 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.1381983e-05
3,622 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 7.1350619e-05
3,816 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.9852219e-05
4,058 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8134824e-05
4,431 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 6.5871432e-05
4,958 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.3254925e-05
5,373 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1405913e-05
6,547 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.7326481e-05
6,805 CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs 2022 CIDR 5.6612739e-05
7,191 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 5.5736866e-05
7,470 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5032592e-05
7,996 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.3941543e-05
8,437 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.315377e-05
8,781 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.2647498e-05
9,243 CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics 2025 VLDB 5.1864799e-05
9,322 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.1815882e-05
9,851 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 5.1064323e-05
9,887 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 5.1023582e-05
9,999 Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures 2024 SIGMOD 5.0845476e-05
11,915 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,917 KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks 2022 SIGMOD 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
55 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00040385073
77 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00036821827
212 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024786576
249 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00023099455
250 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023080446
360 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00019959166
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018450254
867 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00013342302
2,002 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.189062e-05
3,860 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.9512283e-05
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