The XPS Approach to Loading and Unloading Terabyte Databases

Summary: Presents XPS, Informix’s MPP approach to terabyte-scale database loading and unloading. Emphasizes parallel, scalable, flexible, easy-to-use utilities as first-class components of enterprise database management. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8577
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
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Overall Rank: 14,242 | 2.29%
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1. Sanket Atal (Informix Software Inc.)

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@article{atal_vldb96,
        title = {{The XPS Approach to Loading and Unloading Terabyte Databases}},
        author = {Atal, Sanket},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        year = {1996}
}

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