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Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System

Summary: Proposes replacing monolithic DBMSs with small, RISC-style data managers exposing lean, specialized APIs. Built-in self-assessment and auto-tuning target predictable performance and lower operational complexity. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h1cca5df86b62439c
Venue
VLDB
Year
2000
Pagerank
0.00015664234
Overall Rank
604 | 95.95%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{chaudhuri_vldb00,
        title = {{Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System}},
        author = {Chaudhuri, Surajit and Weikum, Gerhard},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {1--10},
        year = {2000}
}

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224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024011047
252 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023101361
314 An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 2019 SIGMOD 0.00021276452
319 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00021155013
598 Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle 2005 CIDR 0.0001575517
781 Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering 2002 VLDB 0.00014019939
954 RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF 2008 VLDB 0.00012866296
1,606 The Data Calculator*: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles and Learned Cost Models 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010091937
1,845 Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture 2011 CIDR 9.5158088e-05
2,397 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.5238625e-05
2,441 A Case for Staged Database Systems 2003 CIDR 8.4611767e-05
2,578 Chip-Secured Data Access: Confidential Data on Untrusted Servers 2002 VLDB 8.2697175e-05
2,580 Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios 2005 VLDB 8.2677597e-05
3,117 The CompleteSearch Engine: Interactive, Efficient, and Towards IR & DB Integration 2007 CIDR 7.6302571e-05
3,588 Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation 2021 VLDB 7.1841858e-05
3,606 Updating a Cracked Database 2007 SIGMOD 7.1653182e-05
3,676 P*TIME: Highly Scalable OLTP DBMS for Managing Update-Intensive Stream Workload 2004 VLDB 7.104784e-05
3,879 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 6.9481594e-05
4,074 Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine 2024 SIGMOD 6.8175757e-05
6,081 From Auto-tuning One Size Fits All to Self-designed and Learned Data-intensive Systems 2019 SIGMOD 5.8897947e-05
6,454 Just-In-Time Data Structures 2015 CIDR 5.7777861e-05
6,918 Adaptive Indexing over Encrypted Numeric Data 2016 SIGMOD 5.6435526e-05
10,178 Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases 2019 CIDR 5.0657907e-05
10,256 AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets 2025 VLDB 5.0495724e-05
12,827 Declarative Management in Microsoft SQL Server 2009 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,893 When is it Time to Rethink the Aggregate Configuration of Your OLAP Server? 2008 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,912 The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing 2007 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
13,098 Speculative Query Processing 2003 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
13,103 The Database Machine: Old Story, New Slant? 2003 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
88 Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00035340164
118 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00031381726
1,899 Querying Multiple Features of Groups in Relational Databases 1996 VLDB 9.4044461e-05
1,909 Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil 1996 VLDB 9.3898701e-05
2,426 Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads 1994 VLDB 8.4818359e-05
2,995 The Value of Merge-Join and Hash-Join in SQL Server 1999 VLDB 7.7679424e-05
5,884 Distributed Processing over Stand-alone Systems and Applications 1997 VLDB 5.9560059e-05
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