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Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases

Summary: Dissects row/column tradeoffs via one query engine supporting both layouts, quantifying disk, cache, and CPU effects. Shows columns often win—up to 10×—and derives a hardware/workload model predicting the superior organization. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9654
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00015591796
Overall Rank
630 | 95.68%
DOI
10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006

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BibTeX Citation

@article{harizopoulos_vldb06,
        title = {{Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases}},
        author = {Harizopoulos, Stavros and Liang, Velen and Abadi, Daniel J. and Madden, Samuel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {487--498},
        doi = {10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006},
        year = {2006}
}

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534 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017046514
696 Main-Memory Scan Sharing For Multi-Core CPUs 2008 VLDB 0.00014891322
761 Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS 2007 VLDB 0.00014254351
883 Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013421859
925 Dictionary-based Order-preserving String Compression for Main Memory Column Stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00013182044
940 Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores 2013 SIGMOD 0.00013081205
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1,747 SQL Server Column Store Indexes 2011 SIGMOD 9.8494706e-05
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1,950 How to Barter Bits for Chronons: Compression and Bandwidth Trade Offs for Database Scans 2007 SIGMOD 9.4271737e-05
2,232 Database Compression on Graphics Processors 2010 VLDB 8.8970926e-05
2,451 One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results 2007 CIDR 8.560157e-05
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3,489 Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth 2008 VLDB 7.3670717e-05
4,508 To Share or Not to Share? 2007 VLDB 6.6561159e-05
5,021 Online Deduplication for Databases 2017 SIGMOD 6.3982122e-05
5,715 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 6.1105343e-05
5,935 Towards Energy-Efficient Database Cluster Design 2012 VLDB 6.0361286e-05
6,848 Jigsaw: A Data Storage and Query Processing Engine for Irregular Table Partitioning 2021 SIGMOD 5.7550624e-05
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10,989 Selective Late Materialization in Modern Analytical Databases 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,227 How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy 2013 CIDR 5.093636e-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
12 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00069513174
14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.0006312782
29 Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00052093615
49 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043781096
60 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.0003955489
109 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.000331207
115 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00032338948
199 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025612088
383 QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine 2005 SIGMOD 0.00019520728
394 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.00019306179
932 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00013119305
1,222 Data Compression in Oracle 2003 VLDB 0.00011602327
2,870 Database Architectures for New Hardware 2004 VLDB 8.0128645e-05
5,922 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 6.041697e-05
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