DB2 Query Parallelism : Staging and Implementation

Summary: DB2 intraquery parallelism staged in three phases since 1993 to boost data-intensive queries. Across optimizer, executor, and buffer manager, this work highlights key issues and implementation mechanisms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8315
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 4.8498261e-05
Overall Rank: 7,051 | 50.95%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yun Wang

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,421	Reordering Query Execution in Tertiary Memory Databases	1996	VLDB	6.201063e-05
7,492	Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance	2023	VLDB	4.7180617e-05
8,631	Parallel I/O Aware Query Optimization	2014	SIGMOD	4.4806824e-05
9,944	Out-of-order Execution of Database Queries	2020	VLDB	4.2446672e-05

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