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Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce*

Summary: Maps arbitrary theta-joins to MapReduce via a simple key-equality data-flow model; supports non-equi joins without changing MR. Introduces 1-Bucket-Theta, a randomized, memory-aware algorithm needing only input cardinality, near-optimal for many joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h44980dfe7b5669e2
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00013381756
Overall Rank
866 | 94.19%
DOI
10.1145/1989323.1989423

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{okcan_sigmod11,
        title = {{Processing Theta-Joins using MapReduce*}},
        author = {Okcan, Alper and Riedewald, Mirek},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989423},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989423},
        year = {2011}
}

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4,275 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.6887374e-05
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6,151 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.8678874e-05
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9,699 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1375205e-05
9,829 BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins 2017 VLDB 5.1230568e-05
9,841 PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing 2015 SIGMOD 5.1215512e-05
11,531 Low-Latency Adaptive Distributed Stream Join System Based on a Flexible Join Model 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,871 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,337 An Efficient MapReduce Cube Algorithm for Varied Data Distributions 2016 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,381 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.0004552807
75 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.0003702496
220 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00024333068
360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020001237
490 Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins 1992 VLDB 0.00017433989
799 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013882649
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