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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9,442	Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics	2003	VLDB	4.3410889e-05
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9,823	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	4.2754485e-05
9,842	A four-dimensional Analysis of Partitioned Approximate Filters	2021	VLDB	4.2722447e-05
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11,237	Cracking-Like Join for Trusted Execution Environments	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,753	Effective Temporal Dependence Discovery in Time Series Data	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,199	A Demonstration of HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,271	Database-support for Continuous Prediction Queries over Streaming Data	2010	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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