In-Memory Performance for Big Data

Summary: Introduces a buffer pool using pointer swizzling for system-object references, eliminating overhead for memory-resident data while retaining out-of-core support. Delivers in-memory performance with graceful degradation as working sets exceed memory and improvement as they fit. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h548215ad1d93bf9b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.6855592e-05
Overall Rank: 2,291 | 84.61%
DOI: 10.14778/2735461.2735465
PDF: Download (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Goetz Graefe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
2. Haris Volos (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
3. Hideaki Kimura (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
4. Harumi Kuno (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
5. Joseph Tucek (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
6. Mark Lillibridge (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
7. Alistair Veitch (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{graefe_vldb15,
        title = {{In-Memory Performance for Big Data}},
        author = {Graefe, Goetz and Volos, Haris and Kimura, Hideaki and Kuno, Harumi and Tucek, Joseph and Lillibridge, Mark and Veitch, Alistair},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {1},
        pages = {37},
        doi = {10.14778/2735461.2735465},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735461.2735465},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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542	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00016654017
1,283	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011205832
2,237	Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations	2019	SIGMOD	8.7738349e-05
3,404	Native Store Extension for SAP HANA	2019	VLDB	7.3257341e-05
4,094	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.8094958e-05
4,166	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	6.7635038e-05
4,243	The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines	2024	VLDB	6.704668e-05
4,738	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.4417968e-05
5,161	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.2452792e-05
5,221	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	6.2207378e-05
5,950	DEX: Scalable Range Indexing on Disaggregated Memory	2024	VLDB	5.934065e-05
6,043	Page As You Go: Piecewise Columnar Access In SAP HANA	2016	SIGMOD	5.9035543e-05
6,491	HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics	2023	CIDR	5.7649204e-05
6,495	FineLine: Log-structured Transactional Storage and Recovery	2018	VLDB	5.7640595e-05
6,726	Memory-Optimized Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Disk-Based Database Systems	2022	VLDB	5.6953141e-05
7,978	Concurrent Log-Structured Memory for Many-Core Key-Value Stores	2018	VLDB	5.412355e-05
8,754	CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing	2025	VLDB	5.2852809e-05
8,994	Resource-Adaptive Query Execution with Paged Memory Management	2025	CIDR	5.2408882e-05
9,362	ScaleCache: Scalable and Production-grade Buffer Management for Disk-based Database Systems	2025	VLDB	5.1855858e-05
9,559	B-Trees Are Back: Engineering Fast and Pageable Node Layouts	2025	SIGMOD	5.1577035e-05
9,732	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.1325223e-05
10,167	BTrim - Hybrid In-Memory Database Architecture for Extreme Transaction Processing in VLDBs	2018	VLDB	5.0659806e-05
10,440	Concurrent Path-Copying Update to Tree Structures	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,680	Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,359	Enhancing Transaction Processing through Indirection Skipping	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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
35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047996489
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.00028316479
229	A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	VLDB	0.00023915204
261	Data-Oriented Transaction Execution	2010	VLDB	0.0002286084
302	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00021664369
729	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014417679
1,025	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012422375
1,382	PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP	2011	VLDB	0.0001085396
2,339	A Scalable Lock Manager for Multicores	2013	SIGMOD	8.6123515e-05
2,693	QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store	1994	SIGMOD	8.119791e-05
2,951	Dual-Buffering Strategies in Object Bases	1994	VLDB	7.8166106e-05
3,300	Compacting Transactional Data in Hybrid OLTP&OLAP Databases	2012	VLDB	7.4408259e-05

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