Database Machine Morphology

Summary: Taxonomy of ~20 database machines (DBMs) with a compact building-block view of architecture. Finds emphasis on brute-force parallel search; little work on storage structures or DBMS OS; most designs optimize per-operation latency rather than throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h125c5efeb42f24af
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.6938051e-05
Overall Rank: 6,734 | 54.73%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Haran Boral (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Steve Redfield (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{boral_vldb85,
        title = {{Database Machine Morphology}},
        author = {Boral, Haran and Redfield, Steve},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        pages = {59},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,226	Fractals for Secondary Key Retrieval	1989	PODS	0.00011431306

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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