WattDB: An Energy-Proportional Cluster of Wimpy Nodes

Summary: WattDB demonstrates an energy-proportional DBMS on a cluster of commodity, wimpy nodes. It dynamically powers nodes according to workload, enabling real-time power-aware scaling and interactive workload adjustment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4478
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.5435639e-05
Overall Rank: 8,308 | 42.21%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Daniel Schall
2. Volker Hudlet

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,029	Green Databases Through Integration of Renewable Energy	2013	CIDR	4.1945683e-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
694	Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018061803

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