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a VLDB paper from Microsoft demonstrates that SQL Server can be both faster and *cheaper* if run on a GPU

www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
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reminds me of the classic learned indices paper where they found that an overtrained MLP neural net on a TPU could dramatically outperform a traditional database index even on cost

this new one is even more interesting bc it’s converting existing structures directly to GPU

arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
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The Case for Learned Index Structures
Indexes are models: a B-Tree-Index can be seen as a model to map a key to the position of a record within a sorted array, a Hash-Index as a model to map a key to a position of a record within an unsor...
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