Ubiquitous, Self-tuning, Scalable Servers

Summary: Ubiquitous hardware and many tunables render DBMS tuning brittle as platforms evolve. The paper envisions an integrated self-tuning, scalable server that unifies buffering, concurrency, and object-relational features, exemplified by Microsoft. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3112
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,165 | 2.82%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276359

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Authors

1. Peter Spiro (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{spiro_sigmod98,
        title = {{Ubiquitous, Self-tuning, Scalable Servers}},
        author = {Spiro, Peter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276359},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276359},
        year = {1998}
}

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