Database Research in Computer Games

Summary: Survey of data management in games, from data-driven design and asset/content pipelines to performance and shared-world consistency. Shows how studios apply DB tech, connects practice to research, and outlines open questions in interfacing traditional databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4195
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 4.390048e-05
Overall Rank: 9,109 | 36.70%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,202	Indexing Methods for Moving Object Databases: Games and Other Applications	2013	SIGMOD	4.7975642e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
7,404	Scaling Games to Epic Proportions	2007	SIGMOD	4.7336249e-05
12,298	From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games	2009	CIDR	4.1905499e-05

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