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Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs

Summary: Revisits hash join versus sort-merge join with highly optimized multicore implementations, achieving record CPU throughput and robust performance under skew and varying input sizes. Models predict wider SIMD, more cores, and bandwidth limits will soon favor sort-merge joins. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hd002d9f853e65366
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00024786576
Overall Rank
212 | 98.59%
DOI
10.14778/1687553.1687564

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BibTeX Citation

@article{kim_vldb09,
        title = {{Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs}},
        author = {Kim, Changkyu and Kaldewey, Tim and Lee, Victor W. and Sedlar, Eric and Nguyen, Anthony D. and Satish, Nadathur and Chhugani, Jatin and Di Blas, Andrea and Dubey, Pradeep},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687564},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687564},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
215 Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age 2014 SIGMOD 0.00024554257
250 Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited 2014 VLDB 0.00023080446
280 FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022267903
360 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00019959166
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018450254
627 Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015430074
662 Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort 2010 SIGMOD 0.00014972958
670 SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone 2012 VLDB 0.00014929358
710 Cache locality is not enough: High-Performance Nearest Neighbor Search with Product Quantization Fast Scan 2016 VLDB 0.00014598403
850 Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores 2013 VLDB 0.00013450864
885 Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013222753
965 Memory-Efficient Hash Joins 2015 VLDB 0.00012778081
1,119 A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011927356
1,169 DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics 2014 VLDB 0.00011690039
1,269 An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011236561
1,340 Fast Updates on Read-Optimized Databases Using Multi-Core CPUs 2012 VLDB 0.00010962559
1,720 ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout 2015 SIGMOD 9.7828414e-05
1,821 Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond 2015 PODS 9.5466386e-05
2,002 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.189062e-05
2,125 Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture 2013 VLDB 8.9903827e-05
2,248 Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting 2015 SIGMOD 8.7484225e-05
2,294 Pump Up the Volume: Processing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2020 SIGMOD 8.67775e-05
2,369 Streaming Similarity Search over one Billion Tweets using Parallel Locality-Sensitive Hashing 2013 VLDB 8.5487072e-05
2,464 Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes 2022 VLDB 8.4081954e-05
2,485 A Memory Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Radix Sort on GPUs 2017 SIGMOD 8.3800709e-05
2,527 Adaptive and Big Data Scale Parallel Execution in Oracle 2013 VLDB 8.3243069e-05
2,681 Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining 2016 VLDB 8.1203826e-05
2,806 Distributed Join Algorithms on Thousands of Cores 2017 VLDB 7.9657254e-05
2,827 To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System 2021 SIGMOD 7.9486247e-05
2,886 Efficient Join Algorithms For Large Database Tables in a Multi-GPU Environment 2021 VLDB 7.8911081e-05
3,043 Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems 2018 VLDB 7.7045781e-05
3,403 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 7.3213995e-05
3,470 Improving Main Memory Hash Joins on Intel Xeon Phi Processors: An Experimental Approach 2015 VLDB 7.2606844e-05
3,495 In-Cache Query Co-Processing on Coupled CPU-GPU Architectures 2015 VLDB 7.237656e-05
3,622 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 7.1350619e-05
3,860 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.9512283e-05
4,063 The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product 2021 VLDB 6.812902e-05
4,243 SIMD- and Cache-Friendly Algorithm for Sorting an Array of Structures 2015 VLDB 6.6974353e-05
4,396 Predicate Transfer: Efficient Pre-Filtering on Multi-Join Queries 2024 CIDR 6.6072577e-05
4,554 OmniDB: Towards Portable and Efficient Query Processing on Parallel CPU/GPU Architectures 2013 VLDB 6.5311864e-05
4,751 MQJoin: Efficient Shared Execution of Main-Memory Joins 2016 VLDB 6.42279e-05
4,958 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.3254925e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
5,169 The 3D Hash Join: Building On Non-Unique Join Attributes 2022 CIDR 6.2335575e-05
5,522 Density-optimized Intersection-free Mapping and Matrix Multiplication for Join-Project Operations 2022 VLDB 6.0818991e-05
5,564 Charting the Design Space of Query Execution using VOILA 2021 VLDB 6.0660209e-05
5,603 Database Processing-in-Memory: An Experimental Study 2020 VLDB 6.0518498e-05
5,637 FPGA-based Multithreading for In-Memory Hash Joins 2015 CIDR 6.0383864e-05
5,787 Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities 2021 VLDB 5.9768075e-05
5,839 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 5.957817e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
27 Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.0005146739
77 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00036821827
106 Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00033563032
156 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00028431734
223 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024059196
230 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00023845485
289 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00021955394
304 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021569633
610 Relational Joins on Graphics Processors 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015540189
626 Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors 2007 VLDB 0.00015431379
722 Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture 2008 VLDB 0.00014470465
997 What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects 2000 VLDB 0.00012595178
1,259 Handling Data Skew in Multiprocessor Database Computers Using Partition Tuning 1991 VLDB 0.00011296701
1,808 An Adaptive Hash Join Algorithm for Multiuser Environments 1990 VLDB 9.5852314e-05
2,515 Hash-Based Join Algorithms for Multiprocessor Computers with Shared Memory 1990 VLDB 8.3437209e-05
2,704 Executing Stream Joins on the Cell Processor 2007 VLDB 8.0950719e-05
2,707 Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities 2007 CIDR 8.0920389e-05
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