JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark
Summary: Proposes JouleSort, an external-sort energy-efficiency benchmark spanning diverse platforms with fairness criteria, metrics, and pitfalls for DB workloads. Demonstrates ~3.5x energy-efficiency gain over prior winner using a commodity mobile CPU with 13 laptop drives and server-style I/O. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Suzanne Rivoire (Stanford University)
- 2. Mehul A. Shah (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 3. Parthasarathy Ranganathan (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 4. Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{rivoire_sigmod07,
title = {{JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark}},
author = {Rivoire, Suzanne and Shah, Mehul A. and Ranganathan, Parthasarathy and Kozyrakis, Christos},
series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247522},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247522},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 902 | Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013184118 |
| 2,727 | Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research | 2009 | CIDR | 8.0896376e-05 |
| 2,878 | Towards Eco-friendly Database Management Systems | 2009 | CIDR | 7.9166224e-05 |
| 3,157 | Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters | 2010 | VLDB | 7.5834595e-05 |
| 12,373 | An Experimental Evaluation of Datacenter Workloads On Low-Power Embedded Micro Servers | 2016 | VLDB | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 304 | GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00021604795 |
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