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Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach

Summary: Introduces a customized relational database and carefully tuned query suite for systematic, scientific DBMS benchmarking. Demonstrates the methodology through single-user comparisons of university/commercial INGRES and the IDM 500 database machine. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h5467db2791ecaa59
Venue
VLDB
Year
1983
Pagerank
0.00044784799
Overall Rank
46 | 99.70%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{bitton_vldb83,
        title = {{Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach}},
        author = {Bitton, Dina and DeWitt, David J. and Turbyfill, Carolyn},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        pages = {8--19},
        year = {1983}
}

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6,602 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.7397128e-05
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