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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?

Summary: Shows mmap is a risky substitute for a DBMS buffer pool: subtle correctness and performance pathologies cause major systems to abandon it. Provides detailed analysis, experiments, and pragmatic guidance on when mmap might be acceptable. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h548c0e7ef10f3cc8
Venue
CIDR
Year
2022
Pagerank
6.2482143e-05
Overall Rank
5,160 | 65.31%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{crotty_cidr22,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '22},
        title = {{Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Crotty, Andrew and Leis, Viktor and Pavlo, Andrew},
        year = {2022}
}

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5,360 LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs 2024 VLDB 6.1614422e-05
5,541 Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics 2025 VLDB 6.0902254e-05
6,120 LSMGraph: A High-Performance Dynamic Graph Storage System with Multi-Level CSR 2024 SIGMOD 5.880693e-05
6,484 Bf-Tree: A Modern Read-Write-Optimized Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index 2024 VLDB 5.7696173e-05
7,959 Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware 2024 VLDB 5.4175386e-05
8,473 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.3345353e-05
8,571 Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass 2025 SIGMOD 5.3127636e-05
9,131 Taking the Shortcut: Actively Incorporating the Virtual Memory Index of the OS to Hardware-Accelerate Database Indexing 2024 CIDR 5.2231746e-05
10,669 Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,881 One Pass to Parse Them All: Fused Parallel CSV Processing 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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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
373 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00019711632
672 The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager 2017 VLDB 0.0001489638
820 Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager 1994 VLDB 0.00013661724
954 RDF-3X: a RISC-style Engine for RDF 2008 VLDB 0.00012867202
2,295 In-Memory Performance for Big Data 2015 VLDB 8.6819789e-05
2,693 QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store 1994 SIGMOD 8.1231603e-05
2,877 Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS 2020 CIDR 7.9181223e-05
3,358 RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible! 2016 VLDB 7.3812131e-05
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