RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!

Summary: RUMA enables user-space rewiring of virtual-to-physical memory mappings while retaining hardware/OS virtual-memory support. Treating memory management as an algorithmic primitive accelerates array operations, partitioning, sorting, and snapshotting. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hf939ee1af048082f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 7.3812131e-05
Overall Rank: 3,358 | 77.43%
DOI: 10.14778/2977797.2977800

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Authors

1. Felix Martin Schuhknecht (Saarland University)
2. Jens Dittrich (Saarland University)
3. Ankur Sharma (Saarland University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{schuhknecht_vldb16,
        title = {{RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!}},
        author = {Schuhknecht, Felix Martin and Dittrich, Jens and Sharma, Ankur},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {10},
        pages = {768--779},
        doi = {10.14778/2977797.2977800},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2977797.2977800},
        year = {2016}
}

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3,935	The Case For Heterogeneous HTAP	2017	CIDR	6.9166006e-05
4,094	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.8103269e-05
4,761	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	6.4302502e-05
5,160	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.2482143e-05
5,545	Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass	2023	VLDB	6.0886041e-05
7,959	Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware	2024	VLDB	5.4175386e-05
8,571	Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass	2025	SIGMOD	5.3127636e-05
9,022	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	5.2349846e-05
9,131	Taking the Shortcut: Actively Incorporating the Virtual Memory Index of the OS to Hardware-Accelerate Database Indexing	2024	CIDR	5.2231746e-05
9,727	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.1349531e-05
10,514	Translytical Processing via DB-OS Co-designed Buffer: Cross-Engine Isolation and Tunable Update Visibility for HTAP	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,651	The Case for DBMS Live Patching	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,023	AnyOLAP: Analytical Processing of Arbitrary Data-Intensive Applications without ETL	2021	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
207	Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory	1999	VLDB	0.00024970987
251	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00023143736
282	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022264207
1,116	A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011962096
1,266	An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011269175
1,283	A Seven-Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods and its Implications on Query Processing	2016	VLDB	0.00011209209
2,245	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.7649358e-05
5,131	Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores	2015	SIGMOD	6.2602133e-05
5,179	On the Surprising Difficulty of Simple Things: the Case of Radix Partitioning	2015	VLDB	6.2408516e-05

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