Don’t Hold My Data Hostage – A Case For Client Protocol Redesign

Summary: Benchmarks client result-set serialization across major DBMSs, showing transfer costs can dominate query execution and current protocols are inefficient. Proposes columnar serialization, achieving up to an order-of-magnitude faster database-to-client transmission. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11577
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.9436548e-05
Overall Rank: 4,036 | 72.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3115404.3115410

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Authors

1. Mark Raasveldt (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Hannes Mühleisen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@article{raasveldt_vldb17,
        title = {{Don’t Hold My Data Hostage – A Case For Client Protocol Redesign}},
        author = {Raasveldt, Mark and Mühleisen, Hannes},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1022--1033},
        doi = {10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        year = {2017}
}

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6,628	ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes	2022	VLDB	5.8197537e-05
6,684	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	5.8036476e-05
6,967	MonetDBLite: An Embedded Analytical Database	2018	SIGMOD	5.7303405e-05
9,419	Language-Agnostic Integrated Queries in a Managed Polyglot Runtime	2021	VLDB	5.273161e-05
9,920	Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2025	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
10,067	Shared Load(ing): Efficient Bulk Loading into Optimized Storage	2020	CIDR	5.1643809e-05
10,761	Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
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11,033	Enter the Warp: Fast and Adaptive Data Transfer with XDBC	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
60	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0003955489
186	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00026182534
237	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.0002369895

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