Cost Evaluation Of Directory Management Schemes For Distributed Database Systems

Summary: Analyzes directory management schemes in distributed DB systems to minimize inter-site communications. Adopts a packet-based cost model, deriving optimal directory structures as functions of data locality and the update/query mix. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2188
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,958 | 45.41%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582269

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Authors

1. Yutaka Matsushita (Oki Electric Industry Company Limited)
2. Haruaki Yamazaki (Oki Electric Industry Company Limited)
3. Sadayuki Hikita (Oki Electric Industry Company Limited)
4. Isamu Yoshida (Oki Electric Industry Company Limited)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{matsushita_sigmod80,
        title = {{COST EVALUATION OF DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS}},
        author = {Matsushita, Yutaka and Yamazaki, Haruaki and Hikita, Sadayuki and Yoshida, Isamu},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582269},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582269},
        year = {1980}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,064	Performance of Catalog Management Schemes for Running Access Modules in a Locally Distributed Database System	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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