Lessons from Wall Street: case studies in configuration, tuning, and distribution

Summary: Case studies of configuration, tuning, and distribution drawn from financial applications, where speed, reliability, and subsecond, globally accessible data are essential. Highlights research and product implications for high-performance distributed data management, offering lessons to the SIGMOD community. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3034
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,195 | 2.61%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253368

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Authors

1. Dennis Shasha (New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shasha_sigmod97,
        title = {{Lessons from Wall Street: case studies in configuration, tuning, and distribution}},
        author = {Shasha, Dennis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253368},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253368},
        year = {1997}
}

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164	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027698879

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