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: 2959
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 8.5428771e-05
Overall Rank: 2,466 | 83.09%
DOI: 10.1145/233269.233351

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Authors

1. Kurt P. Brown (64k Inc.)
2. Michael J. Carey (IBM)
3. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brown_sigmod96,
        title = {{Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited*}},
        author = {Brown, Kurt P. and Carey, Michael J. and Livny, Miron},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233351},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233351},
        year = {1996}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
188	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00026126036
231	The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering	1993	SIGMOD	0.00023846898
637	2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm	1994	VLDB	0.0001547341
1,940	Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains	1991	SIGMOD	9.4473794e-05
2,184	Managing Memory to Meet Multiclass Workload Response Time Goals	1993	VLDB	9.0045033e-05
2,403	Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads	1994	VLDB	8.6233649e-05
4,719	Adaptive Database Buffer Allocation Using Query Feedback	1993	VLDB	6.5463032e-05

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