Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access

Summary: Reframes database performance around memory latency rather than CPU, using scans and hardware counters to quantify TLB/cache costs. Advocates vertically fragmented layouts, memory-aware analytical modeling, and access patterns validated in Monet. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8787
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00052093615
Overall Rank: 29 | 99.81%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Peter Boncz (Data Distilleries B.V.)
2. Stefan Manegold (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
3. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@article{boncz_vldb99,
        title = {{Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access}},
        author = {Boncz, Peter and Manegold, Stefan and Kersten, Martin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {54--65},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,449	MCC-DB: Minimizing Cache Conflicts in Multi-core Processors for Databases	2009	VLDB	5.2665098e-05
9,609	Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics	2003	VLDB	5.2468818e-05
9,668	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	5.2392753e-05
9,675	BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins	2017	VLDB	5.2380072e-05
9,986	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	5.1832796e-05
10,004	A four-dimensional Analysis of Partitioned Approximate Filters	2021	VLDB	5.1810297e-05
10,115	Hash Joins Meet CXL: A Fresh Look	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,888	Saving Private Hash Join	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,182	Object-oriented Unified Encrypted Memory Management for Heterogeneous Memory Architectures	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,200	High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,204	SPID-Join: A Skew-resistant Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm Exploiting the Bank- and Rank-level Parallelisms of DIMMs	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,437	Cracking-Like Join for Trusted Execution Environments	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,959	Effective Temporal Dependence Discovery in Time Series Data	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,394	A Demonstration of HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,466	Database-support for Continuous Prediction Queries over Streaming Data	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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