Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign

Summary: Analyzes cost of transferring large query results from DB to client; critiques prevailing result-serialization protocols. Proposes a columnar serialization method that markedly reduces transmission time, with experiments showing up to 10x speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11389
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.2022597e-05
Overall Rank: 4,419 | 69.26%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mark Raasveldt
2. Hannes Muhleisen

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2,934	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.8595778e-05
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6,010	MonetDBLite: An Embedded Analytical Database	2018	SIGMOD	5.2415551e-05
6,541	ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes	2022	VLDB	5.0216945e-05
6,666	Mainlining Databases: Supporting Fast Transactional Workloads on Universal Columnar Data File Formats	2021	VLDB	4.9691571e-05
6,988	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	4.8718019e-05
9,268	Language-Agnostic Integrated Queries in a Managed Polyglot Runtime	2021	VLDB	4.3657168e-05
9,747	Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2025	VLDB	4.2897489e-05
9,918	Shared Load(ing): Efficient Bulk Loading into Optimized Storage	2020	CIDR	4.2561557e-05
10,482	Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,635	Saving Private Hash Join	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,806	Enter the Warp: Fast and Adaptive Data Transfer with XDBC	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076197749
60	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00064439773
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
131	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0004370331
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00028132402
426	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023594359

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