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Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct

Summary: Trip report tracing DB-architecture evolution toward scalable, stable, simple, self-managing column stores from ARM to global clusters. Emphasizes hardware-conscious algorithms and self-management techniques for practical, maintainable column-store DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10029
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00014631814
Overall Rank
721 | 95.06%
DOI
10.14778/1687553.1687618

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BibTeX Citation

@article{manegold_vldb09,
        title = {{Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct}},
        author = {Manegold, Stefan and Kersten, Martin L. and Boncz, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687618},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687618},
        year = {2009}
}

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2,836 HyPer-sonic Combined Transaction AND Query Processing 2011 VLDB 8.0716718e-05
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6,412 Ranked Enumeration of Join Queries with Projections 2022 VLDB 5.8836116e-05
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12,138 GIS Navigation Boosted by Column Stores 2015 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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12 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00069513174
29 Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00052093615
49 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043781096
67 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00038461275
68 The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00038446206
74 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00037330605
104 Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes 1997 SIGMOD 0.00033932213
109 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.000331207
115 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00032338948
184 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00026256101
204 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00025342994
383 QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine 2005 SIGMOD 0.00019520728
394 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.00019306179
501 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001738508
761 Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS 2007 VLDB 0.00014254351
932 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013119305
987 What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects 2000 VLDB 0.00012814017
1,028 Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00012557617
1,110 Buffering Accesses to Memory-Resident Index Structures 2003 VLDB 0.00012140661
1,460 MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010710674
1,565 Column-Store Support for RDF Data Management: not all swans are white 2008 VLDB 0.00010349261
1,632 Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique 2003 VLDB 0.0001016847
1,679 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010029136
2,151 An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store 2009 SIGMOD 9.0784444e-05
3,406 Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections 2004 VLDB 7.4392655e-05
3,876 Cracking the Database Store 2005 CIDR 7.0544298e-05
5,922 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 6.041697e-05
6,682 STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing 2004 VLDB 5.8039833e-05
6,688 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 5.8015211e-05
7,792 Cache-Oblivious Query Processing 2007 CIDR 5.5431413e-05
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