Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing

Summary: Argues processor-centric DB designs hit a Memory Wall due to growing core vs. memory‑bandwidth imbalance and costly, underutilized memory; advocates memory‑centric computing with disaggregated memory pools for cost‑effective scaling. Demonstrates how DB operators and execution models can be reengineered to exploit memory‑centric architectures on current hardware, enabling more efficient, scalable cloud data management. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 564
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.1997534e-05
Overall Rank: 9,890 | 32.15%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yannis Chronis (Google)
2. Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)
3. Lawrence Benson (Technical University of Munich)
4. Helena Caminal (Google)
5. Jana Gičeva (Technical University of Munich)
6. Dave Patterson (Google)
7. Eric Sedlar (Oracle)
8. Lisa Wu Wills (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chronis_cidr25,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '25},
        title = {{Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Chronis, Yannis and Ailamaki, Anastasia and Benson, Lawrence and Caminal, Helena and Gičeva, Jana and Patterson, Dave and Sedlar, Eric and Wills, Lisa Wu},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,609	CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing	2025	VLDB	5.4023412e-05
10,989	Selective Late Materialization in Modern Analytical Databases	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
18	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	0.00059284255
67	Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory	2000	SIGMOD	0.00038461275
74	Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing	1994	VLDB	0.00037330605
109	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.000331207
1,117	Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012108907
1,453	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	0.00010742227
2,962	To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System	2021	SIGMOD	7.9170451e-05
4,861	CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines	2024	VLDB	6.4747307e-05

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