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A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce

Summary: Evaluates common join strategies for log processing in MapReduce, highlighting platform-specific trade-offs and implementation details. Provides an empirical comparison on a 100-node Hadoop cluster to guide when to apply particular join algorithms in MapReduce workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hbb9bbaf88bfa70d7
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00013889081
Overall Rank
799 | 94.63%
DOI
10.1145/1807167.1807273

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{blanas_sigmod10,
        title = {{A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce}},
        author = {Blanas, Spyros and Patel, Jignesh M. and Ercegovac, Vuk and Rao, Jun and Shekita, Eugene J. and Tian, Yuanyuan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807273},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807273},
        year = {2010}
}

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753 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00014237583
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876 Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework 2011 VLDB 0.00013309176
968 Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012782051
1,080 Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce 2013 VLDB 0.00012131978
1,175 Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams 2013 SIGMOD 0.00011649474
1,837 Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce 2010 VLDB 9.5350058e-05
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3,636 Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation 2014 VLDB 7.1471007e-05
4,069 Dynamically Optimizing Queries over Large Scale Data Platforms 2014 SIGMOD 6.821366e-05
4,772 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 6.4229185e-05
5,213 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 6.2250048e-05
5,274 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 6.2005706e-05
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6,334 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.810781e-05
6,721 Near-Optimal Distributed Band-Joins through Recursive Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 5.6981399e-05
6,758 DistME: A Fast and Elastic Distributed Matrix Computation Engine using GPUs 2019 SIGMOD 5.6890461e-05
6,858 SquirrelJoin: Network-Aware Distributed Join Processing with Lazy Partitioning 2017 VLDB 5.6631651e-05
7,259 Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation 2018 SIGMOD 5.5716049e-05
7,619 SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 5.4832111e-05
7,836 Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale 2016 VLDB 5.4435399e-05
9,437 MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis 2012 VLDB 5.1778231e-05
9,693 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1399537e-05
11,865 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,327 Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016 PODS 4.9793485e-05
12,375 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.001052036
30 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00050495102
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045546775
75 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.0003704106
249 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00023175253
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