A Performance Analysis of the Gamma Database Machine

Summary: Empirical evaluation of the Gamma DBM, measuring selection, join, and aggregation times plus single-tuple updates. Compared with Teradata DBC/1012, analyzes processor scaling, memory size, and disk page size, highlighting Gamma's strengths and weaknesses. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2413
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 4.9862818e-05
Overall Rank: 6,630 | 53.88%
DOI: -

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Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
232	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00032122485
588	Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins	1992	VLDB	0.00019604754
1,063	Tradeoffs in Processing Complex Join Queries via Hashing in Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00014362773
1,266	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00012946573
3,516	Experience Report: Exploiting Advanced Database Optimization Features for Large-Scale SAP R/3 Installations	2002	VLDB	7.0201615e-05
3,733	Object Placement in Parallel Hypermedia Systems	1991	VLDB	6.8110688e-05
7,593	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	4.7019508e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.0014279444
10	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.0012103754
20	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00086459551
30	Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations	1984	VLDB	0.00078672446
78	Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms	1985	VLDB	0.00056413752

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