Abstract:Skyline query is one of the most expensive operators in the database system.Some Skyline queries involving multiple tables,which are called Skyline-join queries,are even more costly to evaluate.Therefore,in this paper,we adopt Google’s MapReduce,a parallel processing framework,to handle Skyline-join queries.A novel parallel algorithm is proposed to prune the dataset progressively and hence the network transfer cost is reduced.The algorithm is evaluated on Amazon’s EC2 and the experiments verify its efficiency.