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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
0.00013247362
Overall Rank
889 | 94.03%
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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1,241 BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011378254
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010975458
1,366 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010912114
1,966 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 9.3039057e-05
2,213 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.8206114e-05
2,284 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 8.6954168e-05
2,350 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.5984201e-05
2,802 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9903139e-05
2,879 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.9150972e-05
3,006 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7609084e-05
3,053 MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures 2021 SIGMOD 7.7019663e-05
3,135 Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers 2020 CIDR 7.6092468e-05
3,227 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 7.5083649e-05
3,608 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.1650501e-05
3,626 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 7.1524537e-05
3,826 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.9984204e-05
4,034 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8393244e-05
4,414 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 6.609914e-05
4,931 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.348544e-05
5,371 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1584802e-05
6,534 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.7541988e-05
6,792 CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs 2022 CIDR 5.6810904e-05
7,175 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 5.5934912e-05
7,451 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5236802e-05
7,976 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.4146123e-05
8,473 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.3345353e-05
8,752 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.2847178e-05
9,289 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.2012408e-05
9,810 Scabbard: Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing 2022 VLDB 5.1257999e-05
9,844 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 5.1217095e-05
9,960 Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures 2024 SIGMOD 5.1038322e-05
11,433 CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,865 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,867 KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-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 0.00040499302
76 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00036898845
210 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024851502
249 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00023175253
251 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023143736
361 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020006406
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018491327
865 Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce* 2011 SIGMOD 0.0001338765
1,995 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2169073e-05
4,011 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.8573269e-05
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