RTIndex: Exploiting Hardware-Accelerated GPU Raytracing for Database Indexing
Summary: RTIndex recasts GPU indexing as ray tracing: data become 3D scene objects and point/range queries become rays evaluated by NVIDIA RTX intersection hardware. A 14-dimensional study demonstrates competitive performance and broad applicability without hand-tailored GPU indexes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Justus Henneberg (Johannes Gutenberg University)
- 2. Felix Schuhknecht (Johannes Gutenberg University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{henneberg_vldb23,
title = {{RTIndex: Exploiting Hardware-Accelerated GPU Raytracing for Database Indexing}},
author = {Henneberg, Justus and Schuhknecht, Felix},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {13},
pages = {4268--4281},
doi = {10.14778/3625054.3625063},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3625054.3625063},
year = {2023}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,447 | RTScan: Efficient Scan with Ray Tracing Cores | 2024 | VLDB | 5.7798274e-05 |
| 8,804 | GPH: An Efficient and Effective Perfect Hashing Scheme for GPU Architectures | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.27236e-05 |
| 10,360 | Raster is Faster: Rethinking Ray Tracing in Database Indexing | 2026 | CIDR | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,476 | GraphRTX: Lighting the Way to Scalable Graph Analytics | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,772 | RT-RkNN: Reverse k Nearest Neighbor Queries as a Graphics Ray Casting Problem | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,840 | Bridging the Indexing Gap in Fused GPU Query Engines | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,915 | RayBooster: A Ray Tracing Engine to Accelerate SedonaDB | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,946 | RayDB: Building Databases with Ray Tracing Cores | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,032 | Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Databases: Building Next-Generation Query Engines Using Ray Tracing Cores | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 277 | FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00022320139 |
| 1,748 | HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines | 2019 | VLDB | 9.7289385e-05 |
| 2,202 | Mega-KV: A Case for GPUs to Maximize the Throughput of In-Memory Key-Value Stores | 2015 | VLDB | 8.8707587e-05 |
| 2,466 | Concurrent Analytical Query Processing with GPUs | 2014 | VLDB | 8.4182778e-05 |
| 2,887 | Efficient Join Algorithms For Large Database Tables in a Multi-GPU Environment | 2021 | VLDB | 7.9044174e-05 |
| 3,055 | MG-Join: A Scalable Join for Massively Parallel Multi-GPU Architectures | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.6983202e-05 |
| 3,862 | GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.9623352e-05 |
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