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Scaling Equi-Joins
Summary: AM-Join fuses Tree-Join and Broadcast-Join to scale equi-joins in shared-nothing systems, addressing join-key skew with robust load balancing. It supports all outer-join variants without deduplication or custom partitioning; IB-Join enables Small-Large outer-joins by keeping the small table in memory, with a Spark-based implementation delivering notable speedups.
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h35f1da397f763400
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SIGMOD
Year
2022
Pagerank
4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank
11,865 | 20.23%
DOI
10.1145/3514221.3526042
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@inproceedings{metwally_sigmod22,
title = {{Scaling Equi-Joins}},
author = {Metwally, Ahmed},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526042},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526042},
year = {2022}
}
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