Database Machine Morphology

Summary: Taxonomy of ~20 database machines (DBMs) with a compact building-block view of architecture. Finds emphasis on brute-force parallel search; little work on storage structures or DBMS OS; most designs optimize per-operation latency rather than throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7688
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.2760277e-05
Overall Rank: 5,914 | 58.86%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Haran Boral
2. Steve Redfield

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,249	Fractals for Secondary Key Retrieval	1989	PODS	0.00013044758

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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