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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
0.00013342302
Overall Rank
867 | 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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4,282 Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey 2018 VLDB 6.6712965e-05
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6,168 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.8484846e-05
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9,728 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1205326e-05
9,826 BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins 2017 VLDB 5.1083104e-05
9,877 PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing 2015 SIGMOD 5.1046184e-05
11,580 Low-Latency Adaptive Distributed Stream Join System Based on a Flexible Join Model 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,915 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,380 An Efficient MapReduce Cube Algorithm for Varied Data Distributions 2016 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,424 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010494385
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045453255
76 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.00036932687
220 An Evaluation of Non-Equijoin Algorithms 1991 VLDB 0.00024275691
359 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00019963275
491 Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins 1992 VLDB 0.00017383221
799 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013839554
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