Performance in the Spotlight

Summary: Argues that database evaluations should look beyond raw performance, which is necessary but not sufficient for practical utility. Highlights practitioner-centric criteria and how they can motivate new research directions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12136
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,884 | 18.47%
DOI: 10.14778/3352063.3352144

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Authors

1. Adrian Colyer (Accel)

BibTeX Citation

@article{colyer_vldb19,
        title = {{Performance in the Spotlight}},
        author = {Colyer, Adrian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2287--2289},
        doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352144},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352144},
        year = {2019}
}

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845	Spanner: Becoming a SQL System	2017	SIGMOD	0.00013660379
867	Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00013511197
1,187	Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations	2014	VLDB	0.00011760199
1,240	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011536847
1,457	Building on Quicksand	2009	CIDR	0.00010726983
3,940	Quantifying Isolation Anomalies	2009	VLDB	7.0080239e-05

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