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Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access

Summary: Architecture-conscious DB design to close the memory-access bottleneck by exploiting memory hierarchy. Proposes vertical partitioning (columnar storage) and cache-conscious data layouts/algorithms, with microbenchmark evidence (TLB, L1/L2) of substantial throughput gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8596
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00066474881
Overall Rank
52 | 99.65%
DOI
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131 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.0004370331
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239 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00031617428
343 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00026768139
351 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.0002636504
540 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.0002063443
576 Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory 2011 CIDR 0.00019865648
585 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00019706145
596 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019481482
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
775 Relational Joins on Graphics Processors 2008 SIGMOD 0.00016823862
795 Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory 2002 PODS 0.00016600368
950 Data Processing on FPGAs 2009 VLDB 0.00015108484
958 Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015045316
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3,082 FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases 2012 VLDB 7.6014248e-05
3,115 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.543505e-05
3,175 Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining 2016 VLDB 7.438501e-05
3,193 Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds" 2018 VLDB 7.4089674e-05
3,219 Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins 2018 VLDB 7.3550716e-05
3,465 GPL: A GPU-based Pipelined Query Processing Engine 2016 SIGMOD 7.0695873e-05
3,721 To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System 2021 SIGMOD 6.8179379e-05
3,722 Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections 2004 VLDB 6.8176075e-05
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