Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins

Summary: Memory-contention responsive hash joins adapt to fluctuating memory via large I/O buffers, dynamic cluster sizing, and destaging/restoration. Outperforms prior adaptive hash-join approaches under medium/high contention and frequent memory changes, especially with mixed workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h8edf993b88baaf94
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 6.7717644e-05
Overall Rank: 4,136 | 72.28%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Diane L. Davison (University of Colorado Boulder)
2. Goetz Graefe (Portland State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{davison_vldb94,
        title = {{Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins}},
        author = {Davison, Diane L. and Graefe, Goetz},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {379},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
496	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017347275
2,147	Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach	2018	VLDB	8.9595129e-05
4,332	Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	6.6448006e-05
4,535	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.5408539e-05
4,677	Dynamic Memory Adjustment for External Mergesort	1997	VLDB	6.4575536e-05
9,014	Resource-Adaptive Query Execution with Paged Memory Management	2025	CIDR	5.2235585e-05
9,599	Saving Private Hash Join	2025	VLDB	5.1376962e-05
10,911	CrocSort: Resource-Efficient, Skew-Resilient Parallel External Merge Sort	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00081781676
83	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00035942723
156	Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms	1985	VLDB	0.00028431734
283	Disk Shadowing	1988	VLDB	0.0002224058
855	Hash-Partitioned Join Method Using Dynamic Destaging Strategy	1988	VLDB	0.0001340982
1,808	An Adaptive Hash Join Algorithm for Multiuser Environments	1990	VLDB	9.5852314e-05
2,282	The Effect of Bucket Size Tuning in the Dynamic Hybrid GRACE Hash Join Method	1989	VLDB	8.6925412e-05
3,236	Partially Preemptible Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.4849664e-05

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