Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases

Summary: Identifies a “no man’s land” between off-the-shelf DMSs and custom general-purpose-language solutions that lacks a clear migration path. Advocates transferring database techniques into PL/compiler ecosystems and outlines concrete research opportunities to enable gradual, composable migration. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 339
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.1832796e-05
Overall Rank: 9,986 | 31.49%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Holger Pirk (Imperial College London)
2. Jana Giceva (Imperial College London)
3. Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pirk_cidr19,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '19},
        title = {{Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Pirk, Holger and Giceva, Jana and Pietzuch, Peter},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,301	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	6.2750553e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
49	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043781096
100	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00034385207
109	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.000331207
252	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00023242719
259	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023119313
292	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00022259549
534	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017046514
600	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.00015871387
678	Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015061068
1,028	Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00012557617
1,177	A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011808761
1,203	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.00011671169
1,229	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00011578425
1,469	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	0.00010678751
2,094	Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters	2015	CIDR	9.1819738e-05
3,126	S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications	2014	VLDB	7.7330792e-05
3,900	Sloth: Being Lazy is a Virtue (When Issuing Database Queries)	2014	SIGMOD	7.0361352e-05
7,366	Non-Invasive Progressive Optimization for In-Memory Databases	2016	VLDB	5.6322753e-05

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