Lowering the Latency of Data Processing Pipelines Through FPGA based Hardware Acceleration

Summary: An FPGA-based decision-tree ensemble accelerator targets search scoring, reducing data movement and enabling pipeline-stage fusion. Evaluated on Amazon F1, it delivers compact, massively parallel scoring and up to two orders-of-magnitude speedup over CPUs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h83351dfb2f1d305b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.5666052e-05
Overall Rank: 7,282 | 51.05%
DOI: 10.14778/3357377.3357383

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Muhsen Owaida (ETH Zurich)
2. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
3. Laura Fogliarini (Amadeus)
4. Anthony Hock-Koon (Amadeus)
5. Pierre-Etienne Melet (Amadeus)

BibTeX Citation

@article{owaida_vldb20,
        title = {{Lowering the Latency of Data Processing Pipelines Through FPGA based Hardware Acceleration}},
        author = {Owaida, Muhsen and Alonso, Gustavo and Fogliarini, Laura and Hock-Koon, Anthony and Melet, Pierre-Etienne},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {71--84},
        doi = {10.14778/3357377.3357383},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3357377.3357383},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,284	Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects	2020	SIGMOD	8.6954168e-05
3,972	TCUDB: Accelerating Database with Tensor Processors	2022	SIGMOD	6.8881464e-05
5,958	Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch Pruning	2020	SIGMOD	5.9338314e-05
8,804	SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	5.2732683e-05
9,744	Making Search Engines Faster by Lowering the Cost of Querying Business Rules Through FPGAs	2020	SIGMOD	5.1349531e-05
10,439	Discovery of Denial Constraints with Hardware Acceleration	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,918	Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads	2009	VLDB	9.3789552e-05
2,031	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.1572841e-05
2,603	PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce	2009	VLDB	8.2312028e-05
2,870	BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction	1999	SIGMOD	7.9233098e-05
3,737	In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.0628666e-05
4,879	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.3715334e-05
4,931	FPGA-based Data Partitioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.348544e-05
6,246	ColumnML: Column-Store Machine Learning with On-The-Fly Data Transformation	2019	VLDB	5.8370793e-05
8,367	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.3460641e-05
8,598	doppioDB: A Hardware Accelerated Database	2017	SIGMOD	5.3056336e-05

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