Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited*

Summary: Revisits goal-oriented buffer management for multi-class workloads and introduces hit rate concavity as a design principle. Proposes Class Fencing, a buffer-allocation algorithm that is as accurate and stable as prior work but more responsive, robust, and simpler. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h482da1c58a13d807
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 8.4668531e-05
Overall Rank: 2,437 | 83.62%
DOI: 10.1145/233269.233351

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Authors

1. Kurt P. Brown (64k Inc.)
2. Michael J. Carey (IBM)
3. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brown_sigmod96,
        title = {{Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited*}},
        author = {Brown, Kurt P. and Carey, Michael J. and Livny, Miron},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.233351},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.233351},
        year = {1996}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044784799
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00030411805
191	Data Placement In Bubba	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025700375
212	The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering	1993	SIGMOD	0.00024767296
593	2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm	1994	VLDB	0.00015836342
1,949	Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains	1991	SIGMOD	9.3203578e-05
2,212	Managing Memory to Meet Multiclass Workload Response Time Goals	1993	VLDB	8.8207908e-05
2,425	Towards Automated Performance Tuning For Complex Workloads	1994	VLDB	8.4854028e-05
4,791	Adaptive Database Buffer Allocation Using Query Feedback	1993	VLDB	6.4131306e-05

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