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: 340
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 4.2713516e-05
Overall Rank: 9,822 | 31.74%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,741	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	5.3450701e-05

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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	0.0040465394
52	Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00066322421
59	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.0006445664
80	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00055735291
124	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.0004501099
181	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00036970794
201	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00034903121
403	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024176677
407	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023941779
528	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.0002085799
701	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017893039
932	Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015227954
1,100	Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00014062265
1,540	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.00011451745
1,610	A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011155922
1,751	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010673874
2,019	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	9.7814175e-05
2,421	Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters	2015	CIDR	8.8471956e-05
3,573	S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications	2014	VLDB	6.9524741e-05
4,164	Sloth: Being Lazy is a Virtue (When Issuing Database Queries)	2014	SIGMOD	6.3859482e-05
7,462	Non-Invasive Progressive Optimization for In-Memory Databases	2016	VLDB	4.7189301e-05

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