The Design of XPRS

Summary: XPRS proposes a general-purpose DBMS on shared-memory multiprocessors spanning OLTP, ad-hoc queries, and large objects. Its distinctive architecture combines fast paths, specialized concurrency control, a 2D file system, parallelism, and efficient disk mirroring for high performance and availability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8053
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00017462492
Overall Rank: 497 | 96.60%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Randy Katz (University of California Berkeley)
3. David Patterson (University of California Berkeley)
4. John Ousterhout (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb88,
        title = {{The Design of XPRS}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Katz, Randy and Patterson, David and Ousterhout, John},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '88},
        pages = {318},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
474	Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1989	SIGMOD	0.00017894953
770	Parametric Query Optimization	1992	VLDB	0.00014166811
830	Exploiting Inter-Operation Parallelism in XPRS	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013761367
1,271	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.0001138443
1,720	Using Segmented Right-Deep Trees for the Execution of Pipelined Hash Joins	1992	VLDB	9.9265634e-05
2,104	Optimization of Multi-Way Join Queries for Parallel Execution	1991	VLDB	9.1594086e-05
2,272	Parallel evaluation of multi-join queries	1995	SIGMOD	8.8242407e-05
2,613	A Performance Analysis of Alternative Multi-Attribute Declustering Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	8.3460281e-05
2,835	A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions	1990	VLDB	8.0726749e-05
3,250	On Optimal Processor Allocation To Support Pipelined Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.597429e-05
4,652	On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins	1994	SIGMOD	6.5851924e-05
4,668	Performance Analysis of a Load Balancing Hash-Join Algorithm for a Shared Memory Multiprocessor	1991	VLDB	6.5761032e-05
5,428	Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays	1991	SIGMOD	6.2222186e-05
7,801	A Non-Uniform Data Fragmentation Strategy for Parallel Main-Memory Database Systems	1995	VLDB	5.542027e-05
8,109	Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios	2008	VLDB	5.4843869e-05
8,631	Performance Evaluation of Semantics-based Multilevel Concurrency Control Protocols	1990	SIGMOD	5.3966275e-05
9,107	Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems	1997	VLDB	5.3225923e-05
12,485	From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games	2009	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,636	InfiniteDB: a PC-Cluster based Parallel Massive Database Management System	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
52	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00041107291
119	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.0003183602
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315
152	Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms	1985	VLDB	0.00029038365
192	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00026028406
583	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00016145442
651	The Implementation of An Integrated Concurrency Control and Recovery Scheme	1982	SIGMOD	0.00015316891
1,118	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00012104924
3,011	Design and Evaluation of Parallel Pipelined Join Algorithms	1987	SIGMOD	7.8532781e-05

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