Engineering High-Performance Database Engines

Summary: Survey two DB engines—disk-based RDF-3X and in-memory HyPer—on architecture choices for scaling with data and hardware. Compares design decisions and optimization techniques across SPARQL and relational workloads, highlighting cross-engine trade-offs in high-performance data systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h42361e255a6b96f8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.1391768e-05
Overall Rank: 9,587 | 35.74%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733059
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Authors

1. Thomas Neumann (Technical University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{neumann_vldb14,
        title = {{Engineering High-Performance Database Engines}},
        author = {Neumann, Thomas},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1734--1745},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733059},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733059},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,958	Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations	2020	VLDB	9.2894133e-05
2,827	To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System	2021	SIGMOD	7.9486247e-05

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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
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00068985264
21	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00056737487
80	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036267455
98	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00034050614
161	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00027629724
215	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00024554257
250	Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited	2014	VLDB	0.00023080446
381	Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors	2009	VLDB	0.00019497061
423	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00018450254
881	Dynamic Programming Strikes Back	2008	SIGMOD	0.0001324243
959	RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF	2008	VLDB	0.00012825889
1,293	Analysis of Two Existing and One New Dynamic Programming Algorithm for the Generation of Optimal Bushy Join Trees without Cross Products	2006	VLDB	0.00011143846
1,942	Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases	2013	VLDB	9.3133693e-05
2,041	Scalable Join Processing on Very Large RDF Graphs	2009	SIGMOD	9.1287048e-05
2,732	x-RDF-3X: Fast Querying, High Update Rates, and Consistency for RDF Databases	2010	VLDB	8.0665111e-05
3,308	Compacting Transactional Data in Hybrid OLTP&OLAP Databases	2012	VLDB	7.4195851e-05
3,807	Query Simplification: Graceful Degradation for Join-Order Optimization	2009	SIGMOD	6.9902343e-05
4,227	Accelerating Queries with Group-By and Join by Groupjoin	2011	VLDB	6.7087461e-05
5,915	Crescando	2010	SIGMOD	5.9322816e-05
9,504	Executing Long-Running Transactions in Synchronization-Free Main Memory Database Systems	2013	CIDR	5.1531044e-05

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