A Case for Ecological Efficiency in Database Server Lifecycles
Summary: Measure diminishing DB-server performance gains per TDP across public and new benchmarks to find when replacements stop improving power efficiency. Use carbon-intensity of hardware and energy production to derive eco-driven replacement intervals. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Thomas Bodner (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 2. Martin Boissier (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 3. Tilmann Rabl (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 4. Ricardo Salazar-Díaz (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 5. Florian Schmeller (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 6. Nils Strassenburg (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 7. Ilin Tolovski (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 8. Marcel Weisgut (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 9. Wang Yue (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bodner_cidr25,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '25},
title = {{A Case for Ecological Efficiency in Database Server Lifecycles}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Bodner, Thomas and Boissier, Martin and Rabl, Tilmann and Salazar-Díaz, Ricardo and Schmeller, Florian and Strassenburg, Nils and Tolovski, Ilin and Weisgut, Marcel and Yue, Wang},
year = {2025}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,962 | Environmental Footprints of Query Processing: A Vision for Sustainable Database Architectures | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,330 | TCO2: Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Database Server Replacements | 2025 | VLDB | - |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,466 | A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.0001068941 |
| 2,667 | A Memory Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Radix Sort on GPUs | 2017 | SIGMOD | 8.2756346e-05 |
| 3,001 | What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines | 2023 | VLDB | 7.8673493e-05 |
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