Implementation and performance evaluation of a parallel transitive closure algorithm on PRISMA/DB
Summary: Implements the Disconnection Set Approach for parallel transitive closure in the PRISMA/DB main-memory relational system. Experiments show strong, sometimes superlinear speedups over semi-naive evaluation, while exposing fragmentation’s key impact on scalability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Maurice A.W. Houtsma (University of Twente)
- 2. Annita N. Wilschut (University of Twente)
- 3. Jan Flokstra (University of Twente)
BibTeX Citation
@article{houtsma_vldb93,
title = {{Implementation and performance evaluation of a parallel transitive closure algorithm on PRISMA/DB}},
author = {Houtsma, Maurice A.W. and Wilschut, Annita N. and Flokstra, Jan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '93},
year = {1993}
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| 2,280 | Parallel evaluation of multi-join queries | 1995 | SIGMOD | 8.6972041e-05 |
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| 18 | MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) | 1986 | PODS | 0.00058816744 |
| 1,292 | On the Computation of the Transitive Closure of Relational Operators | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00011145435 |
| 2,308 | A Framework for the Parallel Processing of Datalog Queries | 1990 | SIGMOD | 8.6514834e-05 |
| 3,137 | Parallelism in a Main-Memory DBMS: The performance of PRISMA/DB | 1992 | VLDB | 7.5882372e-05 |
| 3,147 | A New Paradigm For Parallel And Distributed Rule-Processing | 1990 | SIGMOD | 7.5793335e-05 |
| 4,757 | Translation and Optimization of Logic Queries: The Algebraic Approach | 1986 | VLDB | 6.4208636e-05 |
| 5,472 | Distributed Transitive Closure Computations: The Disconnection Set Approach | 1990 | VLDB | 6.10153e-05 |
| 6,739 | A File Structure Supporting Traversal Recursion | 1989 | SIGMOD | 5.6774827e-05 |
| 8,965 | A Parallel Strategy for Transitive Closure using Double Hash-Based Clustering | 1990 | VLDB | 5.2361195e-05 |
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