Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal

Summary: Daytona translates Cymbal (SQL subset) into C and compiles to native code for speed, with B-tree indexing, locking, and recovery, using two compression schemes plus horizontal partitioning to scale to terabytes. Unlike monolithic DBMS, it reuses UNIX tools, staying small, open, and easy to administer while handling 70k+ queries per month. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3201
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00011712263
Overall Rank: 1,197 | 91.79%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304242

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Authors

1. Rick Greer (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{greer_sigmod99,
        title = {{Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal}},
        author = {Greer, Rick},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304242},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304242},
        year = {1999}
}

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230	Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications	2003	SIGMOD	0.00023891474
534	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017046514
818	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00013822916
921	Query Optimization In Compressed Database Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013209503
1,021	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012606673
2,488	How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited	2018	SIGMOD	8.5091578e-05
2,502	Stream Warehousing with DataDepot	2009	SIGMOD	8.4972586e-05
4,452	Just-in-time compilation for SQL query processing	2013	VLDB	6.6942969e-05
8,057	Architecting a Query Compiler for Spatial Workloads	2020	SIGMOD	5.4982831e-05
9,258	Data Stream Warehousing in Tidalrace	2015	CIDR	5.29708e-05
13,720	Enabling Real Time Data Analysis	2010	VLDB	-

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