Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics

Summary: Proposes device annotations on storage interfaces and matching access patterns to hardware strengths. Storage manager yields robust performance under contention, with DSS up to 3x, OLTP 7%, and MEMS parallelism enabling gains in scans. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9269
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 6.0133202e-05
Overall Rank: 6,000 | 58.84%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50068-9

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jiri Schindler (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University)
3. Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{schindler_vldb03,
        title = {{Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics}},
        author = {Schindler, Jiri and Ailamaki, Anastassia and Ganger, Gregory R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50068-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50068-9},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,938	Getting Priorities Straight: Improving Linux Support for Database I/O	2005	VLDB	5.5181056e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
9,609	Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics	2003	VLDB	5.2468818e-05

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