A Methodology for Database System Performance Evaluation

Summary: Proposes a method to evaluate DBMS performance in multiuser workloads, focusing on multiprogramming, data sharing among concurrent transactions, and transaction mix. Shows four query types suffice to cover workloads; benchmark applied to Britton-Lee IDM 500. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2246
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 9.9099939e-05
Overall Rank: 1,968 | 86.33%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Haran Boral
2. David J. DeWitt

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.0004673401
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00044501642
1,264	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00012939192
4,574	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.0663571e-05
5,754	A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries	1986	VLDB	5.3391931e-05
8,584	FCBench: Cross-Domain Benchmarking of Lossless Compression for Floating-Point Data	2024	VLDB	4.4857511e-05
9,994	Text-to-SQL Benchmarks are Broken: An In-Depth Analysis of Annotation Errors	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
12,219	RecBench: Benchmarks for Evaluating Performance of Recommender System Architectures	2011	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,000	An Analytical Method for Estimating and Interpreting Query Time	1987	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
14,267	Database System Performance Measurement	1986	SIGMOD	-

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
10	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.0012093675
296	A Mechanism For Managing The Buffer Pool In A Relational Database System Using The Hot Set Model	1982	VLDB	0.00028636916

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