Abstraction without regret in data management systems
Summary: Argues data management research produces short-lived, recipe-like contributions instead of timeless abstractions and design patterns. Calls for extracting first principles (e.g., locality, out-of-core) to enable enduring, reusable abstractions and clearer crediting. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00017893039 |
| 2,383 | How to Architect a Query Compiler | 2016 | SIGMOD | 8.9198524e-05 |
| 3,548 | Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data | 2014 | VLDB | 6.9798836e-05 |
| 7,472 | The Case for Deep Query Optimisation | 2020 | CIDR | 4.7156624e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware | 2011 | VLDB | 0.0006445664 |
| 309 | Extensible Query Processing in Starburst | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00028195213 |
| 585 | DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00019682634 |
| 5,856 | Implementing Performance Competitive Logical Recovery | 2011 | VLDB | 5.2977185e-05 |
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| 12,363 | Information Theory For Data Management | 2009 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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| 10,721 | Towards Designing Future-Proof Data Processing Systems | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 3,932 | Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers | 2020 | CIDR | 6.6190727e-05 |
| 6,557 | Choices In Practical Data Design | 1982 | VLDB | 5.0064429e-05 |
| 12,294 | The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data | 2009 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 1,406 | Responsible Data Management | 2020 | VLDB | 0.0001216385 |
| 14,357 | Fundamentals of Data Element Definition | 1981 | SIGMOD | - |
| 1,251 | Principles of Dataspace Systems | 2006 | PODS | 0.0001302453 |
| 4,241 | The Composable Data Management System Manifesto | 2023 | VLDB | 6.3258298e-05 |