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: 2307
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 9.0245092e-05
Overall Rank: 2,174 | 85.09%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602283

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Haran Boral (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{boral_sigmod84,
        title = {{A Methodology for Database System Performance Evaluation}},
        author = {Boral, Haran and DeWitt, David J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602283},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602283},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
1,271	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.0001138443
4,025	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.947875e-05
5,563	A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries	1986	VLDB	6.1716947e-05
7,890	FCBench: Cross-Domain Benchmarking of Lossless Compression for Floating-Point Data	2024	VLDB	5.521314e-05
10,141	Text-to-SQL Benchmarks are Broken: An In-Depth Analysis of Annotation Errors	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,406	RecBench: Benchmarks for Evaluating Performance of Recommender System Architectures	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,187	An Analytical Method for Estimating and Interpreting Query Time	1987	VLDB	5.093636e-05
14,454	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
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
609	A Mechanism for Managing the Buffer Pool in a Relational Database System Using the Hot Set Model	1982	VLDB	0.00015792907

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