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DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?

Summary: Framework to study DBMS query time on modern CPUs with a memory-resident DBMS; tests four commercial DBMSs on Intel Xeon to isolate CPU/memory effects from I/O. Findings: optimize L2 data-cache placement and reduce L1 I-cache stalls via instruction scheduling; however overall time reductions are limited without addressing subtle issues like branch prediction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8572
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00045103515
Overall Rank
124 | 99.14%
DOI
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540 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.0002063443
596 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019481482
635 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018879031
710 Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases 2006 VLDB 0.00017765454
757 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00017078358
795 Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory 2002 PODS 0.00016600368
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
81 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00055548574
84 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00053866006
236 High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations 1997 SIGMOD 0.00031779642
1,290 Memory Management during Run Generation in External Sorting 1998 SIGMOD 0.00012795586
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