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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
h184b66ba288f62dd
Venue
VLDB
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00037859131
Overall Rank
70 | 99.54%
DOI
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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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 114 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
55 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040471598
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036364464
123 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030762995
157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028317906
261 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00022868935
431 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018403783
445 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018176701
472 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017692264
485 BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains 2017 SIGMOD 0.00017474502
495 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017370758
570 A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications 2008 SIGMOD 0.00016224945
575 Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth 2012 SIGMOD 0.00016132182
614 Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory 2014 VLDB 0.0001556755
667 SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone 2012 VLDB 0.00014978213
702 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00014673738
728 Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture 2013 VLDB 0.00014414001
756 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00014210991
781 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.000140247
797 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013922631
807 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013778758
857 Storage Management in the NVRAM Era 2014 VLDB 0.00013427334
864 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013391824
872 An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 0.00013342029
887 Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB 2009 CIDR 0.00013258595
890 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013247078
971 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012766019
1,026 Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging 2010 VLDB 0.00012423267
1,034 A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses 2009 VLDB 0.00012394538
1,071 High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility 2017 VLDB 0.0001217253
1,125 FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance 2009 SIGMOD 0.00011926907
1,259 Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications 2011 SIGMOD 0.00011297239
1,297 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011129439
1,334 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010995094
1,382 PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP 2011 VLDB 0.00010858298
1,432 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010679703
1,447 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010627871
1,524 Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database 2014 VLDB 0.00010356318
1,583 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010169494
1,638 SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications 2009 CIDR 0.00010012154
1,693 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 9.8567076e-05
1,704 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.8314656e-05
1,842 On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 VLDB 9.526552e-05
1,848 Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture 2011 CIDR 9.5082163e-05
1,943 An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 9.3283112e-05
1,972 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 9.2858692e-05
1,995 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2169073e-05
2,030 Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching 2018 VLDB 9.1579506e-05
2,089 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store 2021 SIGMOD 9.06623e-05
2,155 Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries 2008 VLDB 8.9456729e-05
2,276 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 8.7087896e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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 0.00068998927
69 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037950385
207 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00024970987
268 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.00022673125
376 Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning 2007 VLDB 0.00019626699
381 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00019491561
772 Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel 1979 SIGMOD 0.00014085842
1,326 An Architecture For High-Level Language Database Extensions 1976 SIGMOD 0.00011007547
2,476 One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results 2007 CIDR 8.409729e-05
2,708 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.1067346e-05
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