One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results

Summary: Apples-to-apples benchmarks of commercial specialized systems vs relational DBMSs across stream, DW, text, plus a scientific/intelligence prototype. Specialized architectures achieve overwhelming speedups in >=4 markets, challenging OSFA. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 74
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.560157e-05
Overall Rank: 2,451 | 83.19%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Chuck Bear (Vertica)
3. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
4. Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University)
5. Tingjian Ge (Brown University)
6. Nabil Hachem
7. Stavros Harizopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
8. John Lifter (StreamBase Inc.)
9. Jennie Rogers (Brown University)
10. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Bear, Chuck and Cetintemel, Ugur and Cherniack, Mitch and Ge, Tingjian and Hachem, Nabil and Harizopoulos, Stavros and Lifter, John and Rogers, Jennie and Zdonik, Stan},
        year = {2007}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
68	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00038446206
83	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036185259
823	The Yin and Yang of Processing Data Warehousing Queries on GPU Devices	2013	VLDB	0.00013792901
868	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00013504796
944	RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF	2008	VLDB	0.00013067088
1,039	RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL	2009	CIDR	0.00012474977
1,854	Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture	2011	CIDR	9.6069414e-05
2,059	LINVIEW: Incremental View Maintenance for Complex Analytical Queries	2014	SIGMOD	9.2471145e-05
2,164	Opening the Black Boxes in Data Flow Optimization	2012	VLDB	9.0521951e-05
3,009	The Case for RodentStore, an Adaptive, Declarative Storage System	2009	CIDR	7.8541296e-05
9,449	MCC-DB: Minimizing Cache Conflicts in Multi-core Processors for Databases	2009	VLDB	5.2665098e-05
9,936	A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays	2010	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
11,356	Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data	2023	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,104	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.0006312782
60	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0003955489
125	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00030932014
150	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00029208207
587	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.00016106078
630	Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases	2006	VLDB	0.00015591796

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