Benchmarking Simple Database Operations

Summary: Critiques TPC/Wisconsin for engineering workloads; proposes a response-time benchmark for simple OO queries. Shows reproducible results; notes speedups from in-memory caching, reduced optimizer overhead, and prejoins via physical links. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2421
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 8.4882167e-05
Overall Rank: 2,508 | 82.80%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38754

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Authors

1. W B Rubenstein (Sun Microsystems)
2. M S Kubicar (Sun Microsystems)
3. R G G Cattell (Sun Microsystems)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rubenstein_sigmod87,
        title = {{Benchmarking Simple Database Operations}},
        author = {Rubenstein, W B and Kubicar, M S and Cattell, R G G},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38754},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38754},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,087	The OO7 Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.0001224919
1,346	Fido: A Cache That Learns to Fetch	1991	VLDB	0.00011078024
4,998	An Incremental Join Attachment for Starburst	1990	VLDB	6.407975e-05
6,464	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.8714103e-05
8,774	Performance and Scalability of Client-Server Database Architectures	1992	VLDB	5.3766157e-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
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113

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