A Case for Staged Database Systems

Summary: Replace monolithic, work-centric threaded DBMS with a staged, data-centric architecture: self-contained stages connected by queues, each owning data, resources, and local scheduling. Yields better cache locality, resource isolation, and evolvability under changing workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 21
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 8.6362653e-05
Overall Rank: 2,394 | 83.58%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Stavros Harizopoulos (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{harizopoulos_cidr03,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '03},
        title = {{A Case for Staged Database Systems}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Harizopoulos, Stavros and Ailamaki, Anastassia},
        year = {2003}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
383	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00019520728
1,000	Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud	2009	CIDR	0.000127281
1,822	PALM: Parallel Architecture-Friendly Latch-Free Modifications to B+ Trees on Many-Core Processors	2011	VLDB	9.6765747e-05
2,234	Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention	2016	SIGMOD	8.8937932e-05
2,679	Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities	2007	CIDR	8.2675008e-05
2,885	High-Throughput Transaction Executions on Graphics Processors	2011	VLDB	7.9969529e-05
3,860	Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads	2018	VLDB	7.0670192e-05
4,296	Latch-free Synchronization in Database Systems: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold?	2017	CIDR	6.7773228e-05
4,330	Sharing Data and Work Across Concurrent Analytical Queries	2013	VLDB	6.7563122e-05
4,478	OmniDB: Towards Portable and Efficient Query Processing on Parallel CPU/GPU Architectures	2013	VLDB	6.6789258e-05
4,508	To Share or Not to Share?	2007	VLDB	6.6561159e-05
5,039	Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores	2015	SIGMOD	6.3909067e-05
5,841	The Necessary Death of the Block Device Interface	2013	CIDR	6.0692932e-05
7,792	Cache-Oblivious Query Processing	2007	CIDR	5.5431413e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
26	Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems	2002	PODS	0.00052982574
49	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043781096
53	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00041071971
74	Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing	1994	VLDB	0.00037330605
109	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.000331207
128	Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization	2000	SIGMOD	0.0003072825
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
545	Improving Index Performance through Prefetching	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016766463
600	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.00015871387
1,763	Dynamic Pipeline Scheduling for Improving Interactive Query Performance	2001	VLDB	9.8124899e-05
2,068	Scheduling Problems in Parallel Query Optimization	1995	PODS	9.2310451e-05
2,528	The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types	1997	VLDB	8.4620669e-05

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