The Impact of Columnar In-Memory Databases on Enterprise Systems: Implications of Eliminating Transaction-Maintained Aggregates

Summary: Columnar in-memory DBs can support transactional workloads, allowing analytics directly on a redundancy-free schema. Eliminating transaction-maintained aggregates reduces write complexity, simplifies data models, and shifts workloads to read-heavy analytics on live data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11053
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.0313122e-05
Overall Rank: 3,902 | 73.23%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733025

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Authors

1. Hasso Plattner (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)

BibTeX Citation

@article{plattner_vldb14,
        title = {{The Impact of Columnar In-Memory Databases on Enterprise Systems: Implications of Eliminating Transaction-Maintained Aggregates}},
        author = {Plattner, Hasso},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1722--1733},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733025},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733025},
        year = {2014}
}

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233	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023815642
3,367	Native Store Extension for SAP HANA	2019	VLDB	7.4718829e-05
5,921	Page As You Go: Piecewise Columnar Access In SAP HANA	2016	SIGMOD	6.0417538e-05
7,235	An Examination of CXL Memory Use Cases for In-Memory Database Management Systems using SAP HANA	2024	VLDB	5.6655351e-05
8,410	Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems	2022	VLDB	5.4309397e-05
9,350	Enterprise Application-Database Co-Innovation for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Virtual Data Model and Its Query Optimization Needs	2025	SIGMOD	5.2841297e-05
9,772	SAP HANA Cloud: Data Management for Modern Enterprise Applications	2025	SIGMOD	5.2209769e-05
9,795	Fingerprints for Compressed Columnar Data Search	2019	SIGMOD	5.2185987e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
115	A Decomposition Storage Model	1985	SIGMOD	0.00032338948
172	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00027281663
216	SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units	2009	VLDB	0.00024498128
345	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.00020656723
428	HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	0.00018633493
575	Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016257033
966	A Common Database Approach for OLTP and OLAP Using an In-Memory Column Database	2009	SIGMOD	0.00012920281
970	Sybase IQ Multiplex – Designed For Analytics	2004	VLDB	0.00012882125
1,315	Fast Updates on Read-Optimized Databases Using Multi-Core CPUs	2012	VLDB	0.00011181796
2,150	Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries	2008	VLDB	9.081101e-05
8,354	Comprehensive and Interactive Temporal Query Processing with SAP HANA	2013	VLDB	5.4452016e-05

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