The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?

Summary: Argues stalled clocks, dark silicon, FPGAs and cloud economics make custom DB hardware viable for accelerating transaction (control‑flow) workloads. Proposes offloading transactions to reconfigurable hardware, forecasting ‘bionic’ DBMSes embedding core DB logic in hardware with software as manager. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h69adfde18a02013f
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.7932997e-05
Overall Rank: 4,122 | 72.29%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ryan Johnson (University of Toronto)
2. Ippokratis Pandis (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{johnson_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like?}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Johnson, Ryan and Pandis, Ippokratis},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

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445	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00018176701
1,931	Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases	2013	VLDB	9.3474242e-05
4,879	Accelerating Generalized Linear Models with MLWeaving: A One-Size-Fits-All System for Any-Precision Learning	2019	VLDB	6.3715334e-05
6,063	ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data	2020	VLDB	5.8982522e-05
6,878	DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines	2022	CIDR	5.657878e-05
9,456	How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores	2014	SIGMOD	5.1735054e-05
9,662	The End of Moore’s Law and the Rise of The Data Processor	2021	VLDB	5.1453267e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
110	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.00032700879
261	Data-Oriented Transaction Execution	2010	VLDB	0.00022868935
902	Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013184118
1,382	PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP	2011	VLDB	0.00010858298
1,855	PALM: Parallel Architecture-Friendly Latch-Free Modifications to B+ Trees on Many-Core Processors	2011	VLDB	9.4973014e-05
2,218	Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs	2009	VLDB	8.8157887e-05
3,869	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	6.9566485e-05
8,029	Internet Scale Storage	2011	SIGMOD	5.4039297e-05

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