Anarchy in the Database: A Survey and Evaluation of Database Management System Extensibility
Summary: Taxonomy and cross-DBMS evaluation of extensibility mechanisms (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Redis, DuckDB) plus an automated static/dynamic toolkit to profile extension integration. Empirical analysis of 400+ PostgreSQL extensions finds 16.8% inter-extension incompatibility linked to extension complexity and implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Abigale Kim (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Marco Slot (Crunchy Data)
- 3. David G. Andersen (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kim_vldb25,
title = {{Anarchy in the Database: A Survey and Evaluation of Database Management System Extensibility}},
author = {Kim, Abigale and Slot, Marco and Andersen, David G. and Pavlo, Andrew},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {6},
pages = {1962--1976},
doi = {10.14778/3725688.3725719},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3725688.3725719},
year = {2025}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,535 | Runtime-Extensible Parsers | 2025 | CIDR | 6.1828827e-05 |
| 10,127 | Declarative Memory Services | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | The Design Of Postgres | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00049302774 |
| 202 | Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00025454884 |
| 271 | TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00022703024 |
| 3,582 | The Composable Data Management System Manifesto | 2023 | VLDB | 7.2869486e-05 |
| 4,156 | Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.86587e-05 |
| 5,535 | Runtime-Extensible Parsers | 2025 | CIDR | 6.1828827e-05 |
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