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GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine

Summary: Gamma, a high-performance dataflow database machine. A 20-node VAX 11/750 prototype demonstrates parallel dataflow query processing with hashing-based algorithms and pipelined inter-process data to minimize control overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7751
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00086104592
Overall Rank
21 | 99.86%
DOI
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040465394
9 Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems 1984 SIGMOD 0.001426258
10 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.0012093675
30 Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations 1984 VLDB 0.00078665259
77 Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms 1985 VLDB 0.00056488357
1,002 Parallel Algorithms and Their Implementation in MICRONET* 1982 VLDB 0.00014705863
1,092 Performance Evaluation of the Statistical Aggregation by Categorization in the SM3 System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00014125481
1,276 Overview of the Jasmin Database Machine 1984 SIGMOD 0.00012859369
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