Sizing and Data Distribution for a Distributed Database Machine

Summary: SPADE, a simulation framework for evaluating distributed database machines, demonstrated on MUFFIN but extensible to other homogeneous environments. Analyzes MUFFIN configurations and processing tactics; uncovers convoys as a surprising performance phenomenon, offering early guidance for architecture design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2220
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 5.4367902e-05
Overall Rank: 8,385 | 42.48%
DOI: 10.1145/582318.582348

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rob McCord (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mccord_sigmod81,
        title = {{Sizing and Data Distribution for a Distributed Database Machine}},
        author = {McCord, Rob},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582348},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582348},
        year = {1981}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,086	Load Balancing in a Locally Distributed Database System	1986	SIGMOD	5.4904672e-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
386	Distributed Query Processing In A Relational Data Base System	1978	SIGMOD	0.00019451022
2,170	Query Execution in DIRECT	1979	SIGMOD	9.042724e-05

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