Abstraction without regret in data management systems
Summary: Argues data management research produces short-lived, recipe-like contributions instead of timeless abstractions and design patterns. Calls for extracting first principles (e.g., locality, out-of-core) to enable enduring, reusable abstractions and clearer crediting. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christoph Koch (EPFL)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{koch_cidr13,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '13},
title = {{Abstraction without regret in data management systems}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Koch, Christoph},
year = {2013}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 495 | Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00017363171 |
| 1,744 | How to Architect a Query Compiler | 2016 | SIGMOD | 9.7332903e-05 |
| 3,071 | Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data | 2014 | VLDB | 7.6789108e-05 |
| 7,031 | The Case for Deep Query Optimisation | 2020 | CIDR | 5.6148219e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00056835296 |
| 273 | Extensible Query Processing in Starburst | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00022498382 |
| 408 | DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00018894165 |
| 6,196 | Implementing Performance Competitive Logical Recovery | 2011 | VLDB | 5.8524e-05 |
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