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REMOP: REmote-Memory-aware OPerator Optimization

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Pith's one-line read Accounting for fixed round-trip latency lets database operators partition buffers to cut remote memory transfers by up to 97 percent.

desk verdict REMOP adds round-count awareness to spilling operators in DuckDB and reports clear microbenchmark gains, but leaves the key assumption that per-round latency dominates remote-memory costs untested. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.19576 v1 pith:YTEAYDZI submitted 2026-06-17 cs.DB cs.DC

Shiquan Zhang , Yunhao Mao , Yuqiu Zhang , Gengrui Zhang , Jeyhun Karimov , Hans-Arno Jacobsen This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords remotememorydatabaseoperatorsout-of-memoryprocessingtransferroundsbufferpartitioningspillingDuckDB
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When analytical database operators run out of local memory and spill to remote disaggregated memory, each transfer carries both data movement time and a fixed round-trip latency. Classical volume-minimizing strategies from disk spilling can therefore produce many small transfers that inflate total latency. REMOP adds the count of transfer rounds to the cost model and derives operator-specific buffer partitioning rules that reduce that count for blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join. The resulting policies are evaluated inside DuckDB on a two-node testbed and produce measurable drops in operator and end-to-end query time under tight memory limits. A sympathetic reader cares because remote memory tiers are becoming common in cloud and disaggregated deployments, so any software change that lowers their effective cost directly improves query performance without additional hardware.

What carries the argument

Transfer-round-aware intra-operator memory policies that derive buffer partitions to minimize the number of remote transfers rather than total data volume alone.

What would settle it

A measurement showing that the latency savings from fewer transfer rounds are offset by increased total data movement or contention, so that overall operator runtime does not decrease.

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Core claim

REMOP is a remote-memory-aware operator optimization framework that incorporates the number of transfer rounds into the latency cost model and instantiates operator-specific buffer-partitioning strategies for blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join, thereby reducing both transfer rounds and operator runtime when queries spill to remote memory.

Load-bearing premise

The dominant extra cost of remote memory is the fixed round-trip latency per transfer, and that operator-specific buffer partitioning can be derived to minimize that count without harming other performance factors.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join each receive tailored partitioning rules that lower their transfer-round counts.
  • Spilling TPC-H queries show an average 22.7 percent end-to-end runtime reduction.
  • Spilling TPC-DS queries show an average 26.4 percent end-to-end runtime reduction.
  • The same policies remain beneficial under tight local memory budgets where classical volume-only heuristics become suboptimal.

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  • Query optimizers could incorporate remote-memory round costs when choosing join algorithms or memory allocations.
  • The approach may generalize to additional operators that perform repeated remote accesses.
  • Systems with variable network latency could further tune the partitioning rules dynamically.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents REMOP, a framework for remote-memory-aware operator optimization in analytical database engines. It augments classical buffer-allocation heuristics with a transfer-round cost model and derives operator-specific partitioning strategies for blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join (instantiated in DuckDB). On a two-node compute-memory testbed, it reports up to 97% fewer transfer rounds and 48% lower operator runtime on spill-heavy microbenchmarks, plus 22.7% and 26.4% end-to-end runtime reductions on spilling TPC-H and TPC-DS queries.

Significance. If the central results hold under rigorous controls, the work addresses a genuine cost-model shift when moving from disk to remote memory and supplies concrete, operator-specific policies that could be adopted in disaggregated-memory engines. The explicit focus on round count rather than volume alone is a clear contribution; reproducible DuckDB integration would strengthen it further.

major comments (2)
  1. [Evaluation (two-node testbed results and TPC-H/TPC-DS runs)] The central claim that transfer-round-aware partitioning yields the reported speedups rests on the unvalidated assumption that fixed per-transfer round-trip latency dominates remote-memory cost (rather than bandwidth, contention, or CPU overhead). No breakdown of measured transfer time into latency vs. bandwidth components, nor sensitivity analysis varying the latency/bandwidth ratio, appears in the evaluation on the two-node testbed; this directly affects whether the derived partitioning strategies remain beneficial when the assumption does not hold.
  2. [Evaluation] The abstract and claimed results supply no workload details, error bars, number of runs, or controls for post-hoc selection; without these, the 22.7%/26.4% end-to-end figures cannot be assessed for robustness or confounding factors.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3 (model and strategies)] Notation for the latency cost model and buffer-partitioning derivation should be introduced with a single running example before the three operator instantiations to improve readability.
  2. [Figures in Evaluation] Figure captions for microbenchmark results should explicitly state the memory budget relative to input size and the remote-memory latency/bandwidth parameters used.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve the evaluation section.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that transfer-round-aware partitioning yields the reported speedups rests on the unvalidated assumption that fixed per-transfer round-trip latency dominates remote-memory cost (rather than bandwidth, contention, or CPU overhead). No breakdown of measured transfer time into latency vs. bandwidth components, nor sensitivity analysis varying the latency/bandwidth ratio, appears in the evaluation on the two-node testbed; this directly affects whether the derived partitioning strategies remain beneficial when the assumption does not hold.

    Authors: We agree that the evaluation would be strengthened by an explicit sensitivity analysis. The REMOP cost model incorporates fixed round-trip latency as a first-class term because remote-memory transfers (e.g., via RDMA) incur non-negligible per-round overhead even when bandwidth is high; the two-node testbed results are consistent with this model. In the revision we will add (1) a measured breakdown of transfer time into latency and bandwidth components on the testbed and (2) a sensitivity study that varies the latency/bandwidth ratio while keeping the same operator policies, thereby showing under which network conditions the round-aware strategies remain advantageous. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The abstract and claimed results supply no workload details, error bars, number of runs, or controls for post-hoc selection; without these, the 22.7%/26.4% end-to-end figures cannot be assessed for robustness or confounding factors.

    Authors: We accept that the reporting of experimental methodology must be expanded for reproducibility and statistical rigor. The full manuscript already identifies the spilling TPC-H and TPC-DS queries, but we will revise the evaluation section to state the exact number of runs, report standard deviations or error bars on all aggregate figures, list the precise query set and memory budgets used, and describe the query-selection protocol to rule out post-hoc bias. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents a new latency cost model that incorporates transfer-round count and derives operator-specific buffer partitioning for blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join. These strategies are instantiated in DuckDB and evaluated via direct runtime measurements on microbenchmarks and TPC-H/TPC-DS queries. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce the claimed speedups (97% fewer rounds, 48% lower operator time, 22.7-26.4% end-to-end) back to the inputs by construction. Results are reported as observed outcomes on a two-node testbed rather than predictions forced by the model itself. The derivation chain therefore remains independent of the reported measurements.

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Remote and disaggregated memory tiers expand the effective memory capacity of analytical database engines, but they also reshape the cost structure of out-of-memory query processing. When an operator spills beyond local DRAM, moving pages to remote memory incurs both data-transfer time and a fixed round-trip latency per transfer. Classical operator analyses and buffer-allocation heuristics primarily target disk spilling by minimizing total I/O volume. Under remote memory, these strategies can be suboptimal because they may trigger excessive transfer rounds. We present REMOP, a remote-memory-aware operator optimization framework that uses transfer-round-aware intra-operator memory policies to improve out-of-memory execution under tight memory budgets. REMOP introduces the number of transfer rounds into the latency cost model and derives operator-specific buffer-partitioning strategies, instantiating the approach for blocked nested-loop join, external merge sort, and external hash join in DuckDB. Our evaluation on a two-node compute-memory testbed shows that REMOP reduces transfer rounds by up to 97% and operator runtime by up to 48% on spill-heavy microbenchmarks, and lowers the average runtime of spilling TPC-H and TPC-DS queries by 22.7% and 26.4% end-to-end.

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Figure 1. Latency model for disk vs. remote memory swaps. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Out-of-memory operator execution. Left: Blocked [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. REMOP system architecture: modified DuckDB with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: REMOP improvement (%) over vanilla DuckDB for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: EMS performance over fan-in k and input-buffer ratio. to a balanced split between the outer and inner relation buffers yield a much lower C than strongly outer-heavy allocations. With selectivity f=1/256K and memory budget M=4K pages, the minimum C occurs at rin=0.9, c…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Operator-level microbenchmarks. 7.5 10.0 Vanilla SPHJ REMOP-heur REMOP(noPF) REMOP 2.5 3.0 3.5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TPC-H query 0 1 Overall 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Geomean (s) +0% -8% +1% -14% -23% Runtime (s) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figur…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: TPC-H SF10 per-query runtime with the overall geometric mean. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: TPC-DS SF10 runtime on spilling queries with the overall geometric mean. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Runtime sensitivity to the local memory budget [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Scalability per operator. 1 2 5 10 20 Scale factor (SF) 1 2 3 4 5 Runtime (s) TPC-H 1 2 5 10 20 Scale factor (SF) 1 2 3 4 5 TPC-DS Vanilla SPHJ REMOP-heur REMOP(noPF) REMOP [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: End-to-end TPC scalability. and memory nodes, yielding RTTs from 0.15 ms to 10 ms with 20% uniform jitter. As [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Sensitivity to network RTT. REMON InfiniSwap Disk 0 50 100 150 200 250 Runtime (s) BNLJ REMON InfiniSwap Disk 0 20 40 60 EMS REMON InfiniSwap Disk 0 10 20 30 EHJ REMON InfiniSwap Disk 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 TPC-H Spilling REMON InfiniSwap Disk 0 1 2 3 4 TPC-DS Spilling Van…
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Swap-backend comparison. raw RDMA latency/bandwidth is substantially better than TCP network and disk (Table I), the Infiniswap backend does not uniformly outperform REMON and disk spilling. We discuss the plausible underlying causes in §V-H. H. Discussions SPHJ ortho…

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