Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited*

Summary: Revisits goal-oriented buffer management for multi-class workloads and introduces hit rate concavity as a design principle. Proposes Class Fencing, a buffer-allocation algorithm that is as accurate and stable as prior work but more responsive, robust, and simpler. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2897
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 8.4332581e-05
Overall Rank: 2,624 | 81.75%
DOI: -

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12,337	Declarative Management in Microsoft SQL Server	2009	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,386	Dynamic Partitioning of the Cache Hierarchy in Shared Data Centers	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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10	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.0012103754
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00044535268
197	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00035201758
306	The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering	1993	SIGMOD	0.00028228982
695	2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm	1994	VLDB	0.00018061376
1,910	Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains	1991	SIGMOD	0.00010120833
1,978	Managing Memory to Meet Multiclass Workload Response Time Goals	1993	VLDB	9.8808322e-05
2,065	Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads	1994	VLDB	9.6410693e-05
4,697	Adaptive Database Buffer Allocation Using Query Feedback	1993	VLDB	5.9904278e-05

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