Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System

Summary: Empirical INGRES study with extended storage, multi-CPU, and prefetching; data- vs overhead-intensive queries diverge, resisting a single architecture. Finds data-intensive sequentiality and locality; read-ahead buffering and VM-style replacement; prefers terminal-based handling of overhead queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2152
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1979
Pagerank: 6.3272576e-05
Overall Rank: 5,189 | 64.40%
DOI: 10.1145/582095.582097

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Authors

1. Paula Hawthorn (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hawthorn_sigmod79,
        title = {{Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System}},
        author = {Hawthorn, Paula and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582097},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582097},
        year = {1979}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,442	An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows	2015	VLDB	0.00010778486
2,094	Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters	2015	CIDR	9.1819738e-05
5,414	Optimizing Tensor Programs on Flexible Storage	2023	SIGMOD	6.2258658e-05
10,697	Query Decorrelation in the Fabric Data Warehouse	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,271	The Effect of Target Applications on the Design of Database Machines	1981	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
320	Evaluation of Database Access Paths	1978	SIGMOD	0.00021373172
1,200	Performance of a Data Base Manager in a Virtual Memory System	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011685754

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