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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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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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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