Overview of the Jasmin Database Machine

Summary: Jasmin is a practical multiprocessor database machine with configurable performance and off-the-shelf components for large-scale, distributed transactions. The paper outlines architecture and reports prototype results; a multiprocessor version is planned. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2313
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 8.029871e-05
Overall Rank: 2,857 | 80.40%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602291

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel H. Fishman (Bell Communications Research)
2. Ming-Yee Lai (Bell Communications Research)
3. W. Kevin Wilkinson (Bell Communications Research)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fishman_sigmod84,
        title = {{Overview of the Jasmin Database Machine}},
        author = {Fishman, Daniel H. and Lai, Ming-Yee and Wilkinson, W. Kevin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602291},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602291},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
52	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00041107291
2,907	Distributed Transaction Management in JASMIN	1984	VLDB	7.9734896e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,124	Systolic (VLSI) Arrays for Relational Database Operations	1980	SIGMOD	7.7354365e-05

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