How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores

Summary: Survey of scalable DBMS design on multicores, NUMA, and microarchitectures; broadens Shore-MT to more storage managers. Highlights bottleneck elimination, parallel core ops, NUMA-aware placement, and cache-local optimizations to exploit hardware. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4789
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 4.4031183e-05
Overall Rank: 9,070 | 36.91%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2588892

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,282	Scaling Up Concurrent Main-Memory Column-Store Scans: Towards Adaptive NUMA-aware Data and Task Placement	2015	VLDB	6.293052e-05
5,559	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.4340893e-05
11,950	Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship	2015	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00052563276
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
122	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00045316749
404	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00024143076
515	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00021214633
585	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019706145
940	SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone	2012	VLDB	0.00015173166
1,429	A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses	2009	VLDB	0.00012033518
1,543	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.0001145318
1,603	PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP	2011	VLDB	0.00011196902
1,659	Fractal Prefetching B+-Trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010980701
2,445	OLTP on Hardware Islands	2012	VLDB	8.8057827e-05
4,484	The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?	2013	CIDR	6.1475055e-05
4,959	Sharing Data and Work Across Concurrent Analytical Queries	2013	VLDB	5.8029448e-05
6,447	STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing	2004	VLDB	5.0588602e-05
13,441	Toward Scalable Transaction Processing: Evolution of Shore-MT	2013	VLDB	-

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