How System 11 SQL Server Became Fast

Summary: System 11 achieved a 10× Sybase SQL Server throughput gain through measurement-driven core reengineering. Key innovations include multiple buffer caches, private log caches, parallel locking, cache-aligned spinlocks, reduced critical sections, and balanced asynchronous writes for SMP scalability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8578
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
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Overall Rank: 14,294 | 2.27%
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1. T.K. Rengarajan (Sybase)

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@article{rengarajan_vldb96,
        title = {{How System 11 SQL Server Became Fast}},
        author = {Rengarajan, T.K.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {590},
        year = {1996}
}

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