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)
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Authors
- 1. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Daniel J. Abadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Stavros Harizopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Nabil Hachem (AvantGarde Consulting, LLC)
- 6. Pat Helland (Microsoft)
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}
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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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