I'm not an expert when it comes to GPGPU for DBs (heck, I'd like to even find one ;) ), but see below what I could come up with. This is a presentation from a

I'm not an expert when it comes to GPGPU for DBs (heck, I'd like to even find one ;) ), but see below what I could come up with. This is a presentation from a member of the IBM Almaden research group I've been talking to at GTC. I can't find much else online, their work seems to be unpublished, but maybe if you ask nicely, they could give you a few pointers: http://cis565-spring-2012.github.com/lectures/02-13-Search-Tim-Kaldewey.pdf http://cis565-spring-2012.github.com/lectures/02-13-Search-T... http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/bakkum_sqlite_tr.pdf http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/bakkum_sqlite_tr.... http://gpuscience.com/software/postgresql-gpu-pgstrom/ http://gpuscience.com/software/postgresql-gpu-pgstrom/ Edit: Tbh. this still seems to be a very young field of research - which is good if you're a graduate student or a member of a private research institute, but as a startup I'd think twice before spending a few man years for making this work.