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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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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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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