Informix Online XPS

Summary: Describes Informix eXtended Parallel Server (XPS), a highly available, scalable parallel DBMS built on Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA). Coservers deliver a single-system image and fault-tolerant fabric; partitioned, pipelined hash operators; and DBslice to simplify VLDB management and enable predictable scaling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2899
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.9544728e-05
Overall Rank: 6,158 | 57.76%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223877

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Authors

1. Bob Gerber (Informix)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gerber_sigmod95,
        title = {{Informix Online XPS}},
        author = {Gerber, Bob},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223877},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223877},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
826	High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations	1997	SIGMOD	0.0001377339

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