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The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign

Summary: RDMA-capable networks erase the old bottleneck, with bandwidth and latency rivaling memory channels and forcing a redesign of distributed in-memory DBMSs. Proposes a new architecture and shows OLTP/OLAP prototype results with large gains over existing designs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hb49d10f3981406c7
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00012933247
Overall Rank
945 | 93.66%
DOI
10.14778/2904483.2904485
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BibTeX Citation

@article{binnig_vldb16,
        title = {{The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign}},
        author = {Binnig, Carsten and Crotty, Andrew and Galakatos, Alex and Kraska, Tim and Zamanian, Erfan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {7},
        pages = {528--539},
        doi = {10.14778/2904483.2904485},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2904483.2904485},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,028 High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks 2016 VLDB 0.00012416417
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.0001097043
1,366 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010908555
1,408 Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System 2018 VLDB 0.00010738859
1,966 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 9.3014925e-05
2,033 Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching 2018 VLDB 9.1538227e-05
2,802 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9866934e-05
2,881 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.9114212e-05
3,007 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7593448e-05
3,229 Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines 2022 CIDR 7.5048882e-05
3,271 Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks 2019 VLDB 7.4716945e-05
3,609 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.1617145e-05
3,827 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.9972263e-05
3,923 Analyzing Efficient Stream Processing on Modern Hardware 2019 VLDB 6.919667e-05
4,173 In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging 2021 VLDB 6.7561241e-05
4,202 The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 6.7343438e-05
4,286 TurboGraph++: A Scalable and Fast Graph Analytics System 2018 SIGMOD 6.6854487e-05
4,296 Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache 2022 VLDB 6.6774301e-05
4,534 AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins 2017 VLDB 6.5535468e-05
4,599 G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture 2022 VLDB 6.5061447e-05
4,946 CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines 2024 VLDB 6.3412158e-05
4,999 The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing 2019 CIDR 6.3196876e-05
5,320 Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks 2020 SIGMOD 6.1813707e-05
5,376 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1555648e-05
6,536 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.7514775e-05
6,725 Near-Optimal Distributed Band-Joins through Recursive Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 5.6954425e-05
6,840 Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions 2022 SIGMOD 5.6657341e-05
6,890 X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication 2022 SIGMOD 5.652433e-05
7,179 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 5.5908448e-05
7,455 Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms 2021 VLDB 5.5210654e-05
7,637 Scalable Distributed Inverted List Indexes in Disaggregated Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.4772211e-05
7,755 Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks 2023 VLDB 5.4572273e-05
7,886 ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching 2020 SIGMOD 5.4313303e-05
7,916 Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice 2023 VLDB 5.4258309e-05
7,980 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.4120499e-05
8,163 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 5.3854685e-05
8,532 Fiber-based Architecture for NFV Cloud Databases 2017 VLDB 5.3205766e-05
8,557 Topology-aware Parallel Data Processing: Models, Algorithms and Systems at Scale 2020 CIDR 5.314366e-05
8,760 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.2822161e-05
8,868 OLAP on Modern Chiplet-Based Processors 2024 VLDB 5.2607671e-05
9,851 D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems 2022 CIDR 5.1192857e-05
10,265 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.0480912e-05
10,926 No Silver Bullet: Boosting GaussDB Performance on the 30TB TPC-H Workload 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,944 OmniTable: A Unified Wide-Table System for Petabyte-Scale LLM Data Curation and Exploration 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,231 Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,871 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,873 KafkaDirect: Zero-copy Data Access for Apache Kafka over RDMA Networks 2022 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,072 Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM 2020 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036354352
123 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030749898
163 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.00027480091
215 Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age 2014 SIGMOD 0.00024589307
251 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023136934
473 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017684278
647 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015201469
782 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.00014018588
797 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013916653
890 Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013241413
1,017 Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure 2010 SIGMOD 0.00012481657
1,028 High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks 2016 VLDB 0.00012416417
1,083 High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy 2015 CIDR 0.00012109589
1,116 A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011957053
1,433 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.0001067528
1,445 An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows 2015 VLDB 0.00010628379
1,583 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010165157
1,787 Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation 2005 SIGMOD 9.6279445e-05
1,997 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2126022e-05
2,425 Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 8.4820179e-05
3,241 Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 7.4972383e-05
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