Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing

Summary: Defines data-shipping, query-shipping, and a flexible hybrid-shipping policy for client-server query processing; analyzes operator-site constraints and bulk-query performance. Hybrid-shipping matches or exceeds pure policies; introduces a 2-step optimization to manage its decision space and enable adaptive execution across clients and servers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2941
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 8.7302865e-05
Overall Rank: 2,336 | 83.98%
DOI: 10.1145/233269.233328

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Authors

1. Michael J. Franklin (University of Maryland)
2. Björn Thór Jónsson (University of Maryland)
3. Donald Kossmann (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{franklin_sigmod96,
        title = {{Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing}},
        author = {Franklin, Michael J. and Jónsson, Björn Thór and Kossmann, Donald},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233328},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233328},
        year = {1996}
}

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434	Query Optimization for Parallel Execution	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018531826
479	Randomized Algorithms For Optimizing Large Join Queries	1990	SIGMOD	0.00017789732
667	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00015166269
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2,582	On the Effectiveness of Optimization Search Strategies for Parallel Execution Spaces	1993	VLDB	8.3875949e-05
4,999	Object-Oriented Extensions in SQL3: A Status Report	1994	SIGMOD	6.407901e-05
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