Parallel skyline queries

  • Authors:
  • Foto N. Afrati;Paraschos Koutris;Dan Suciu;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Affiliations:
  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Theory
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we design and analyze parallel algorithms for skyline queries. The skyline of a multidimensional set consists of the points for which no other point exists that is at least as good along every dimension. As a framework for parallel computation, we use both the MP model proposed in (Koutris and Suciu, PODS 2011), which requires that the data is perfectly load-balanced, and a variation of the model in (Afrati and Ullman, EDBT 2010), the GMP model, which demands weaker load balancing constraints. In addition to load balancing, we want to minimize the number of blocking steps, where all processors must wait and synchronize. We propose a 2-step algorithm in the MP model for any dimension of the dataset, as well a 1-step algorithm for the case of 2 and 3 dimensions. Moreover, we present a 1-step algorithm in the GMP model for any number of dimensions.