The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?
Summary: Argues stalled clocks, dark silicon, FPGAs and cloud economics make custom DB hardware viable for accelerating transaction (control‑flow) workloads. Proposes offloading transactions to reconfigurable hardware, forecasting ‘bionic’ DBMSes embedding core DB logic in hardware with software as manager. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 632 | Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00018895506 |
| 2,326 | Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 9.0271498e-05 |
| 5,124 | Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning | 2019 | VLDB | 5.6747536e-05 |
| 7,303 | DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines | 2022 | CIDR | 4.7632836e-05 |
| 7,356 | ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data | 2020 | VLDB | 4.748111e-05 |
| 9,068 | How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores | 2014 | SIGMOD | 4.398897e-05 |
| 11,534 | The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor | 2021 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? | 1999 | VLDB | 0.0004501099 |
| 336 | Data-Oriented Transaction Execution | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00027008897 |
| 692 | Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00018045529 |
| 1,594 | PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00011212541 |
| 1,999 | PALM: Parallel Architecture-Friendly Latch-Free Modifications to B+ Trees on Many-Core Processors | 2011 | VLDB | 9.8287642e-05 |
| 2,279 | Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs | 2009 | VLDB | 9.1249844e-05 |
| 3,790 | Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing | 2012 | SIGMOD | 6.7612326e-05 |
| 7,572 | Internet Scale Storage | 2011 | SIGMOD | 4.7036122e-05 |
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| 11,534 | The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor | 2021 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 2,782 | Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities | 2007 | CIDR | 8.1278531e-05 |
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