Going Public: Open-Source Databases and Database Research

Summary: Survey of open-source databases accessible to researchers, highlighting OSS as a platform for reproducibility, benchmarking, and collaboration. Examines MySQL as a leading case and asks if DB research can advance without reliance on OSS, and what opportunities OSS offers for data-management research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3470
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,020 | 4.14%
DOI: 10.1145/564691.564790

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Authors

1. Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bonnet_sigmod02,
        title = {{Going Public: Open-Source Databases and Database Research}},
        author = {Bonnet, Philippe},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564790},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564790},
        year = {2002}
}

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