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Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct

Summary: Trip report tracing DB-architecture evolution toward scalable, stable, simple, self-managing column stores from ARM to global clusters. Emphasizes hardware-conscious algorithms and self-management techniques for practical, maintainable column-store DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9838
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00017078358
Overall Rank
757 | 94.74%
DOI
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

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21 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086087497
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066474881
80 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00055721729
81 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00055548574
86 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00052563276
103 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00049150032
121 Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes 1997 SIGMOD 0.00045447517
123 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00045255007
124 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.00045103515
238 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00031642425
258 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.0003022091
464 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.0002245871
515 QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine 2005 SIGMOD 0.00021214633
661 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00018481174
1,026 Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS 2007 VLDB 0.00014589172
1,050 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00014453896
1,079 What happens during a Join? Dissecting CPU and Memory Optimization Effects 2000 VLDB 0.00014233415
1,101 Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00014070632
1,195 Buffering Accesses to Memory-Resident Index Structures 2003 VLDB 0.00013406526
1,706 Column-Store Support for RDF Data Management: not all swans are white 2008 VLDB 0.00010823026
1,795 MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010526672
1,999 Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique 2003 VLDB 9.8235392e-05
2,229 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 9.2350274e-05
2,693 An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store 2009 SIGMOD 8.2883398e-05
3,722 Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections 2004 VLDB 6.8176075e-05
4,108 Cracking the Database Store 2005 CIDR 6.4440088e-05
5,454 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 5.4984664e-05
6,447 STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing 2004 VLDB 5.0588602e-05
6,874 ROX: Run-time Optimization of XQueries 2009 SIGMOD 4.8978984e-05
7,378 Cache-Oblivious Query Processing 2007 CIDR 4.7480163e-05
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