Performance of a Data Base Manager in a Virtual Memory System

Summary: Empirical evaluation of a DBMS buffer pool in a virtual memory system, focusing on page fault rate as pool size changes. Multifactor study varying memory size, buffer size, and memory/buffer replacement algorithms to expose tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2091
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: 0.00011685754
Overall Rank: 1,200 | 91.77%
DOI: 10.1145/509383.509388

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Authors

1. S. W. Sherman (Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering; University of Houston)
2. R. S. Brice (George Washington University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sherman_sigmod76,
        title = {{Performance of a Data Base Manager in a Virtual Memory System}},
        author = {Sherman, S. W. and Brice, R. S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509388},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509388},
        year = {1976}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
1,527	Predictive Load Control for Flexible Buffer Allocation	1991	VLDB	0.00010489064
1,940	Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains	1991	SIGMOD	9.4473794e-05
4,719	Adaptive Database Buffer Allocation Using Query Feedback	1993	VLDB	6.5463032e-05
5,189	Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System	1979	SIGMOD	6.3272576e-05

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

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