Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research
Summary: Argues that energy efficiency in data centers requires database-system–level solutions, not just hardware changes, and demonstrates potential savings via two simple experiments. Identifies DBMS hotspots (query execution, storage, buffer/resource management) and urges energy-aware research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Stavros Harizopoulos (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 2. Mehul A. Shah (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- 3. Justin Meza (University of California Los Angeles)
- 4. Parthasarathy Ranganathan (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{harizopoulos_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Harizopoulos, Stavros and Shah, Mehul A. and Meza, Justin and Ranganathan, Parthasarathy},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 585 | Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00015949541 |
| 902 | Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013184118 |
| 1,484 | Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00010535051 |
| 2,605 | dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips | 2013 | CIDR | 8.229938e-05 |
| 3,157 | Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters | 2010 | VLDB | 7.5834595e-05 |
| 6,057 | Towards Energy-Efficient Database Cluster Design | 2012 | VLDB | 5.900701e-05 |
| 10,049 | Adaptive Energy-Control for In-Memory Database Systems | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.0895106e-05 |
| 12,334 | Energy Elasticity on Heterogeneous Hardware using Adaptive Resource Reconfiguration LIVE | 2016 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,517 | Green Databases Through Integration of Renewable Energy | 2013 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,689 | Resiliency-Aware Data Management | 2011 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00028317906 |
| 634 | Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00015373122 |
| 2,609 | Energy Cost, The Key Challenge of Today’s Data Centers: A Power Consumption Analysis of TPC-C Results | 2008 | VLDB | 8.2286294e-05 |
| 3,573 | JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark | 2007 | SIGMOD | 7.1961289e-05 |
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