Database Research in Computer Games

Summary: Survey of data management in games, from data-driven design and asset/content pipelines to performance and shared-world consistency. Shows how studios apply DB tech, connects practice to research, and outlines open questions in interfacing traditional databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h36a6192f59e02778
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.178769e-05
Overall Rank: 9,428 | 36.62%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559967

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alan Demers (Cornell University)
2. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)
3. Christoph Koch (Cornell University)
4. Ben Sowell (Cornell University)
5. Walker White (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{demers_sigmod09,
        title = {{Database Research in Computer Games}},
        author = {Demers, Alan and Gehrke, Johannes and Koch, Christoph and Sowell, Ben and White, Walker},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559967},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559967},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,215	Indexing Methods for Moving Object Databases: Games and Other Applications	2013	SIGMOD	5.5837763e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,040	Scaling Games to Epic Proportions	2007	SIGMOD	5.4015435e-05
12,776	From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games	2009	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

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