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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
0.00013839554
Overall Rank
799 | 94.65%
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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759 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00014194746
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876 Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework 2011 VLDB 0.00013272245
973 Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012734154
1,084 Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce 2013 VLDB 0.00012086348
1,178 Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams 2013 SIGMOD 0.00011605998
1,850 Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce 2010 VLDB 9.4997173e-05
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5,236 A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew 2015 SIGMOD 6.2037372e-05
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6,168 Similarity Join over Array Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.8484846e-05
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6,349 Cloud-based RDF Data Management 2014 SIGMOD 5.788832e-05
6,733 DistME: A Fast and Elastic Distributed Matrix Computation Engine using GPUs 2019 SIGMOD 5.6788432e-05
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6,880 SquirrelJoin: Network-Aware Distributed Join Processing with Lazy Partitioning 2017 VLDB 5.6423904e-05
7,284 Submodularity of Distributed Join Computation 2018 SIGMOD 5.5505534e-05
7,640 SyncSignature: A Simple, Efficient, Parallelizable Framework for Tree Similarity Joins 2023 VLDB 5.4624931e-05
7,857 Quill: Efficient, Transferable, and Rich Analytics at Scale 2016 VLDB 5.4230146e-05
9,472 MapReduce Algorithms for Big Data Analysis 2012 VLDB 5.1582653e-05
9,728 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1205326e-05
11,915 Scaling Equi-Joins 2022 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,376 Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016 PODS 4.9605343e-05
12,424 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010494385
30 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00050364918
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045453255
76 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.00036932687
249 A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment 1989 SIGMOD 0.00023099455
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