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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
0.00013241413
Overall Rank
890 | 94.02%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2750547

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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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1,060 Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012219425
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
1,366 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010908555
1,966 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 9.3014925e-05
2,213 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.817248e-05
2,287 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 8.691301e-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
3,007 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7593448e-05
3,055 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 7.6983202e-05
3,136 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 7.605704e-05
3,229 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 7.5048882e-05
3,609 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.1617145e-05
3,628 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 7.1490678e-05
3,827 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.9972263e-05
4,036 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8360867e-05
4,416 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 6.6067888e-05
4,932 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.3455411e-05
5,376 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1555648e-05
6,536 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.7514775e-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
7,455 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5210654e-05
7,980 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.4120499e-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
9,299 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.1987786e-05
9,817 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 5.1233734e-05
9,851 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 5.1192857e-05
9,966 Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures 2024 SIGMOD 5.1014161e-05
11,439 CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics 2025 VLDB 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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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
54 GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine 1986 VLDB 0.00040482761
76 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00036891569
210 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024844328
249 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.0002316492
251 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023136934
362 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00019999596
425 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018485358
866 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.00013381756
1,997 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2126022e-05
4,012 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.8540959e-05
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