ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data

Summary: GPU-parallel delimiter parsing via FSM simulation eliminates the sequential context pass, supporting expressive formats such as quoted fields. Scales to thousands of cores at 14.2 GB/s, with streaming PCIe transfers enabling 4.8 GB end-to-end parsing in 0.44 s. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h7bdfeed1648b01c8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.8954903e-05
Overall Rank: 6,064 | 59.25%
DOI: 10.14778/3377369.3377372
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Elias Stehle (Technical University of Munich)
2. Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technical University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stehle_vldb20,
        title = {{ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data}},
        author = {Stehle, Elias and Jacobsen, Hans-Arno},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {5},
        pages = {616--628},
        doi = {10.14778/3377369.3377372},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3377369.3377372},
        year = {2020}
}

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6,125	Parallel Index-based Stream Join on a Multicore CPU	2020	SIGMOD	5.8761704e-05
7,931	Scalable Structural Index Construction for JSON Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.4230698e-05
9,545	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	5.1600923e-05
10,139	GpJSON: High-performance JSON Data Processing on GPUs	2025	VLDB	5.0725068e-05
10,312	Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems	2025	SIGMOD	5.0376863e-05
10,336	Distributed Stream KNN Join	2021	SIGMOD	5.0309635e-05
10,890	One Pass to Parse Them All: Fused Parallel CSV Processing	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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1,070	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012179575
1,927	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	9.362697e-05
1,933	Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases	2013	VLDB	9.3430609e-05
2,331	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	8.6253336e-05
2,348	Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser	2018	VLDB	8.5972138e-05
2,423	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.4851588e-05
2,437	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.4668658e-05
2,487	A Memory Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Radix Sort on GPUs	2017	SIGMOD	8.3939994e-05
2,735	Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	8.0731466e-05
2,925	Constance: An Intelligent Data Lake System	2016	SIGMOD	7.8462376e-05
3,071	Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data	2014	VLDB	7.6789108e-05
3,374	A Hybrid B+-tree as Solution for In-Memory Indexing on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Platforms	2016	SIGMOD	7.3606793e-05
3,505	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	7.2474175e-05
4,123	The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?	2013	CIDR	6.7901576e-05
4,834	ReCache: Reactive Caching for Fast Analytics over Heterogeneous Data	2018	VLDB	6.3865472e-05
5,142	FAD.js: Fast JSON Data Access Using JIT-based Speculative Optimizations	2017	VLDB	6.2545634e-05
7,279	FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data	2019	VLDB	5.5651373e-05

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