Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases

Summary: Identifies a “no man’s land” between off-the-shelf DMSs and custom general-purpose-language solutions that lacks a clear migration path. Advocates transferring database techniques into PL/compiler ecosystems and outlines concrete research opportunities to enable gradual, composable migration. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h00c80340acf54597
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.0657907e-05
Overall Rank: 10,178 | 31.60%
DOI: -
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Holger Pirk (Imperial College London)
2. Jana Giceva (Imperial College London)
3. Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pirk_cidr19,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '19},
        title = {{Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Pirk, Holger and Giceva, Jana and Pietzuch, Peter},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,234	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	6.2159562e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023943337
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056835296
27	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00051576613
48	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043795812
98	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00034099838
110	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.00032696785
251	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00023136934
252	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023101361
292	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00021937893
495	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017363171
604	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.00015664234
663	Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort	2010	SIGMOD	0.00014997516
1,041	Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00012354465
1,116	A Comprehensive Study of Main-Memory Partitioning and its Application to Large-Scale Comparison- and Radix-Sort	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011957053
1,193	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00011582619
1,206	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.00011536099
1,473	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	0.00010552993
2,125	Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters	2015	CIDR	9.0017828e-05
3,160	S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications	2014	VLDB	7.5773134e-05
3,925	Sloth: Being Lazy is a Virtue (When Issuing Database Queries)	2014	SIGMOD	6.919284e-05
7,492	Non-Invasive Progressive Optimization for In-Memory Databases	2016	VLDB	5.5094171e-05

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