Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling

Summary: Proposes priority-aware resource scheduling for a DBMS, examining implications of adding priority to CPU, disk I/O, and the buffer. Simulations show priority scheduling alone insufficient; achieving goals requires coordinating a priority-based disk scheduler with a priority-based buffer manager. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7920
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 8.0008765e-05
Overall Rank: 2,858 | 80.12%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
887	Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015578896
2,043	Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management	1990	VLDB	9.695642e-05
2,570	Extensible Buffer Management of Indexes	1992	VLDB	8.5214777e-05
3,972	On Being Optimistic about Real-Time Constraints	1990	PODS	6.5771215e-05
4,214	Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems	1995	VLDB	6.3541e-05
7,068	Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries	1994	SIGMOD	4.8438369e-05
7,825	Natto: Providing Distributed Transaction Prioritization for High-Contention Workloads	2022	SIGMOD	4.6417301e-05
9,233	Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?	2025	SIGMOD	4.3690661e-05
9,554	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	4.3254416e-05
10,802	Analytics Are Heavy. The DBMS Is Busy. When Will My Mission-Critical Transaction Start Running?	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,307	Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications	2009	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,801	The SPIFFI Scalable Video-on-Demand System	1995	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
75	Disk Shadowing	1988	VLDB	0.00057303824
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00044535268
937	Scheduling Real-time Transactions: a Performance Evaluation	1988	VLDB	0.00015207578
5,305	Prefetching In Realtime Database Applications	1986	SIGMOD	5.577855e-05

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