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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
8573
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00033444898
Overall Rank
107 | 99.26%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
73 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00037755216
216 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024760855
803 High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations 1997 SIGMOD 0.00013962127
1,778 Memory Management during Run Generation in External Sorting 1998 SIGMOD 9.8589636e-05
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