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Database Buffer Size Investigation for OLTP Workloads

Summary: Empirical study on real-world OLTP databases shows how buffer size, database size, and CPU count affect throughput and buffer hits on SMP systems. Offers predictive models and rules-of-thumb for memory sizing vs. CPU scaling in OLTP workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2939
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1997
Pagerank
6.9373987e-05
Overall Rank
3,595 | 75.00%
DOI
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