Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship

Summary: A four-decade perspective on database–hardware co-design, from minimizing disk I/O to exploiting memory, parallelism, and deep storage hierarchies. Highlights scalability, predictability, and energy efficiency as evolving challenges requiring continued software–microarchitecture collaboration. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11310
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,148 | 16.66%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824142

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Authors

1. Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL; RAW Labs)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ailamaki_vldb15,
        title = {{Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship}},
        author = {Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824142},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824142},
        year = {2015}
}

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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
330	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.0002104801
534	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017046514
912	Hardware-Oblivious Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2013	VLDB	0.00013269804
1,367	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011014419
2,094	Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters	2015	CIDR	9.1819738e-05
3,062	Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data	2014	VLDB	7.8037446e-05
4,873	Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory	2015	SIGMOD	6.4694503e-05
6,181	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.9494838e-05
8,315	ADDICT: Advanced Instruction Chasing for Transactions	2014	VLDB	5.4553606e-05
9,288	How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores	2014	SIGMOD	5.2912652e-05

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