Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager

Summary: Dali is a main-memory storage manager delivering persistence, availability, and safety for in-memory DBs via mmap files. Configurable: disable concurrency control and logging for non-persistent shared memory; supports OO and relational models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8371
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 0.00013808096
Overall Rank: 821 | 94.37%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. H. V. Jagadish (AT&T)
2. Daniel Lieuwen (AT&T)
3. Rajeev Rastogi (AT&T)
4. S. Sudarshan (AT&T)
5. Avi Silberschatz (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jagadish_vldb94,
        title = {{Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager}},
        author = {Jagadish, H. V. and Lieuwen, Daniel and Rastogi, Rajeev and Sudarshan, S. and Silberschatz, Avi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {48--59},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
83	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036185259
204	Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory	1999	VLDB	0.00025342994
720	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014632914
1,813	Main-Memory Index Structures with Fixed-Size Partial Keys	2001	SIGMOD	9.6941032e-05
3,448	Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases	2016	SIGMOD	7.4079432e-05
3,965	In-Memory Data Management for Consumer Transactions: The TimesTen Approach	1999	SIGMOD	6.9848471e-05
5,151	The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availability, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response	1995	VLDB	6.3438964e-05
5,809	Logical and Physical Versioning in Main Memory Databases	1997	VLDB	6.0801663e-05
5,989	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.0175059e-05
6,910	A Database System for Real-Time Event Aggregation in Telecommunication	1998	VLDB	5.741257e-05
7,944	On-line Reorganization in Object Databases	2000	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
1,662	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010075123
2,116	A Recovery Algorithm for A High-Performance Memory-Resident Database System	1987	SIGMOD	9.1439163e-05
2,672	QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store	1994	SIGMOD	8.2733031e-05
3,189	Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System	1992	VLDB	7.6543667e-05
9,494	Recovering from Main-Memory Lapses	1993	VLDB	5.2619983e-05

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