From Cooperative Scans to Predictive Buffer Management

Summary: Predictive Buffer Management (PBM) exploits near-future scan knowledge to approximate OPT for concurrent analytical scans. In Vectorwise, it approaches Cooperative Scans’ performance with substantially less architectural impact. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10601
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.8005501e-05
Overall Rank: 6,692 | 54.09%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367519

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michał Świtakowski (Actian)
2. Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
3. Marcin Zukowski (Actian)

BibTeX Citation

@article{switakowski_vldb12,
        title = {{From Cooperative Scans to Predictive Buffer Management}},
        author = {Świtakowski, Michał and Boncz, Peter and Zukowski, Marcin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1759--1770},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367519},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367519},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,103	VectorH: Taking SQL-on-Hadoop to the Next Level	2016	SIGMOD	5.9755412e-05
6,656	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	5.8125079e-05
6,684	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	5.8036476e-05
7,579	Resource-efficient Shared Query Execution via Exploiting Time Slackness	2021	SIGMOD	5.592546e-05
11,071	Sampling-based Predictive Database Buffer Management	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
383	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00019520728
761	Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS	2007	VLDB	0.00014254351
1,527	Predictive Load Control for Flexible Buffer Allocation	1991	VLDB	0.00010489064
1,629	Positional Update Handling in Column Stores	2010	SIGMOD	0.00010184131
1,879	Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads	2009	VLDB	9.5613416e-05
1,933	Red Brick Warehouse: A Read-Mostly RDBMS for Open SMP Platforms	1994	SIGMOD	9.4642118e-05
4,719	Adaptive Database Buffer Allocation Using Query Feedback	1993	VLDB	6.5463032e-05
5,782	Crescando	2010	SIGMOD	6.0901488e-05
6,891	Increasing Buffer-Locality for Multiple Index Based Scans through Intelligent Placement and Index Scan Speed Control	2007	VLDB	5.7447663e-05

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