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Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases

Summary: Study of read-optimized columnar vs row-oriented storage for scan-heavy workloads, focusing on disk bandwidth and CPU behavior. Prototype engine handles both layouts; findings show columnar often outperforms row by orders of magnitude, with an analytical model predicting the preferred layout for a given workload and hardware. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9464
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00017753572
Overall Rank
708 | 95.09%
DOI
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692 Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server 2010 SIGMOD 0.00018045529
701 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017893039
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2,231 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.2367968e-05
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2,367 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 8.9502761e-05
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3,153 AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud 2019 VLDB 7.4706916e-05
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4,677 To Share or Not to Share? 2007 VLDB 5.9988869e-05
5,240 Online Deduplication for Databases 2017 SIGMOD 5.6060424e-05
5,612 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 5.4104818e-05
6,065 Towards Energy-Efficient Database Cluster Design 2012 VLDB 5.2254299e-05
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12,038 How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy 2013 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
20 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086163998
35 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00076209479
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066322421
80 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00055735291
123 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00045235743
124 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.0004501099
132 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00043697853
283 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00029024583
466 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.00022455567
515 QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine 2005 SIGMOD 0.00021209491
1,046 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00014446882
1,415 Data Compression in Oracle 2003 VLDB 0.00012102269
2,582 Database Architectures for New Hardware 2004 VLDB 8.4982366e-05
5,460 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 5.4942627e-05
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