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The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)

Summary: H-Store demonstrates nearly two-orders-of-magnitude OLTP speedups over a commercial RDBMS on TPC-C via a specialized, from-scratch architecture. The results challenge general-purpose RDBMSs and argue for retiring legacy code lines in favor of workload-specific engines. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9715
Venue
VLDB
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00038446206
Overall Rank
68 | 99.54%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb07,
        title = {{The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Madden, Samuel and Abadi, Daniel J. and Harizopoulos, Stavros and Hachem, Nabil and Helland, Pat},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 114 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
57 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040139242
83 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036185259
126 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030779127
157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.0002863588
256 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00023172982
428 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018633493
471 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0001793564
473 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00017900942
478 BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains 2017 SIGMOD 0.00017829906
534 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017046514
561 A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications 2008 SIGMOD 0.00016525248
575 Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth 2012 SIGMOD 0.00016257033
603 Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory 2014 VLDB 0.00015853456
670 SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone 2012 VLDB 0.00015157572
720 Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture 2013 VLDB 0.00014632914
721 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00014631814
755 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00014326008
766 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.0001420984
773 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.00014131021
840 Storage Management in the NVRAM Era 2014 VLDB 0.00013683877
841 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013677356
867 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013511197
868 Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB 2009 CIDR 0.00013504796
887 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013403455
903 An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 0.0001332486
964 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012934147
1,014 Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging 2010 VLDB 0.00012650747
1,022 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012602841
1,063 High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility 2017 VLDB 0.00012343623
1,105 FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012151254
1,255 Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications 2011 SIGMOD 0.00011472627
1,282 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011338762
1,325 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011147309
1,358 PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP 2011 VLDB 0.0001104203
1,420 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010829638
1,423 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010822279
1,524 Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database 2014 VLDB 0.00010501517
1,635 SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications 2009 CIDR 0.00010158805
1,637 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001015538
1,700 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 9.9726588e-05
1,775 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.7870611e-05
1,831 On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 VLDB 9.6635729e-05
1,854 Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture 2011 CIDR 9.6069414e-05
1,926 An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 9.4705999e-05
1,964 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 9.3880822e-05
1,974 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.3658402e-05
2,034 Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching 2018 VLDB 9.2788175e-05
2,150 Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries 2008 VLDB 9.081101e-05
2,234 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 8.8937932e-05
2,388 Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.6474765e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 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
67 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00038461275
204 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00025342994
260 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.00023103999
366 Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning 2007 VLDB 0.00020039981
374 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00019766683
750 Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel 1979 SIGMOD 0.00014379744
1,304 An Architecture For High-Level Language Database Extensions 1976 SIGMOD 0.00011235211
2,451 One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results 2007 CIDR 8.560157e-05
2,674 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.2709176e-05
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