Performance and Scalability of Client-Server Database Architectures

Summary: Empirical evaluation of Client-Server database architectures using replication and query-result caching under varying workloads. Standard CS is outperformed by Client-Server with Multiple Disks and Enhanced Client-Server except for update-heavy workloads; up to 100 clients, MDS matches Enhanced CS, while Enhanced CS scales far better with larger client counts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8298
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,774 | 39.81%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alexios Delis (University of Maryland)
2. Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{delis_vldb92,
        title = {{Performance and Scalability of Client-Server Database Architectures}},
        author = {Delis, Alexios and Roussopoulos, Nick},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        pages = {610},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
943	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013068595
13,074	Local Disk Caching for Client-Server Database Systems	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315
135	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030209257
260	Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications	1985	SIGMOD	0.00023103999
667	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00015166269
1,215	Cache Consistency and Concurrency Control in a Client/Server DBMS Architecture	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011636678
1,425	Maintaining Consistency of Client-Cached Data	1990	VLDB	0.00010816299
2,376	Data Caching Tradeoffs in Client-Server DBMS Architectures	1991	SIGMOD	8.6715978e-05
2,508	Benchmarking Simple Database Operations	1987	SIGMOD	8.4882167e-05
2,830	An Analysis of Three Transaction Processing Architectures	1988	VLDB	8.0789196e-05
5,880	Cooperative Object Buffer Management in the Advanced Information Management Prototype	1987	VLDB	6.0533041e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	1,425	Maintaining Consistency of Client-Cached Data	1990	VLDB
2	667	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB
3	883	Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server	2010	SIGMOD
4	2,336	Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing	1996	SIGMOD
5	1,637	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD
6	14,145	A Scalable and Highly Available Networked Database Architecture	1999	VLDB
7	12,909	An Adaptive Hybrid Server Architecture for Client Caching Object DBMSs	1999	VLDB
8	13,074	Local Disk Caching for Client-Server Database Systems	1993	VLDB
9	5,096	Global Memory Management in Client-Server DBMS Architectures	1992	VLDB
10	2,376	Data Caching Tradeoffs in Client-Server DBMS Architectures	1991	SIGMOD