The Effect Of Large Main Memory On Database Systems

Summary: Explores the impact of large main memories on DBMS design, contrasting huge buffers with full in-memory DBs. Examines MMDBS issues: memory residency, OS memory, in-memory structures, access methods, concurrency control, crash recovery, and evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2381
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 5.7844786e-05
Overall Rank: 6,748 | 53.71%
DOI: 10.1145/16894.16887

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Authors

1. Dina Bitton (Cornell University)
2. Hector Garcia-Molina (Princeton University)
3. Dieter Gawlick (Amdahl Corporation)
4. David Lomet (Wang Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bitton_sigmod86,
        title = {{THE EFFECT OF LARGE MAIN MEMORY ON DATABASE SYSTEMS}},
        author = {Bitton, Dina and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Gawlick, Dieter and Lomet, David},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '86},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/16894.16887},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/16894.16887},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,872	A Self-Controlling Interpreter for the Relational Production Language	1988	SIGMOD	5.5267409e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00083340894
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
219	A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	VLDB	0.00024293529

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