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: 8316
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.8316589e-05
Overall Rank: 6,791 | 52.81%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yun Wang

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,242	Reordering Query Execution in Tertiary Memory Databases	1996	VLDB	6.8746319e-05
7,798	Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance	2023	VLDB	5.6035684e-05
8,685	Parallel I/O Aware Query Optimization	2014	SIGMOD	5.4522721e-05
9,943	Out-of-order Execution of Database Queries	2020	VLDB	5.2308952e-05

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