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Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access

Summary: Reframes database performance around memory latency rather than CPU, using scans and hardware counters to quantify TLB/cache costs. Advocates vertically fragmented layouts, memory-aware analytical modeling, and access patterns validated in Monet. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h852f62bfe77ab419
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.0005158963
Overall Rank
27 | 99.83%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{boncz_vldb99,
        title = {{Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access}},
        author = {Boncz, Peter and Manegold, Stefan and Kersten, Martin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {54--65},
        year = {1999}
}

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157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028317906
210 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024851502
287 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00021970198
304 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021604795
361 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00020006406
423 Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems 2012 VLDB 0.00018491327
431 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018403783
616 Relational Joins on Graphics Processors 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015561564
627 Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015460957
634 Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases 2006 VLDB 0.00015373122
668 Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory 2011 CIDR 0.00014964806
702 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00014673738
761 Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory 2002 PODS 0.00014143602
849 Aggregation and Ordering in Factorised Databases 2013 VLDB 0.00013504405
900 Query Optimization In Compressed Database Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00013186558
939 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00012970078
941 Data Processing on FPGAs 2009 VLDB 0.00012957405
969 Memory-Efficient Hash Joins 2015 VLDB 0.0001278184
976 A Common Database Approach for OLTP and OLAP Using an In-Memory Column Database 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012749922
1,041 Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00012356709
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1,459 Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation 2008 VLDB 0.00010585108
1,487 Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010521722
1,642 Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique 2003 VLDB 0.00010006413
1,841 Main-Memory Index Structures with Fixed-Size Partial Keys 2001 SIGMOD 9.5268075e-05
1,844 Morton Filters: Faster, Space-Efficient Cuckoo Filters via Biasing, Compression, and Decoupled Logical Sparsity 2018 VLDB 9.5159229e-05
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1,952 Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations 2020 VLDB 9.3189525e-05
1,995 Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic 2014 SIGMOD 9.2169073e-05
2,016 Optimizing Multidimensional Index Trees for Main Memory Access 2001 SIGMOD 9.1771614e-05
2,122 Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture 2013 VLDB 9.0084047e-05
2,245 Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting 2015 SIGMOD 8.7649358e-05
2,290 FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases 2012 VLDB 8.6889284e-05
2,673 Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining 2016 VLDB 8.1482775e-05
2,809 Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds" 2018 VLDB 7.9825078e-05
2,815 GPL: A GPU-based Pipelined Query Processing Engine 2016 SIGMOD 7.9777435e-05
2,818 To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System 2021 SIGMOD 7.9739791e-05
2,925 Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins 2018 VLDB 7.8482706e-05
3,007 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.7607173e-05
3,213 Turbo-Charging Estimate Convergence in DBO 2009 VLDB 7.5328015e-05
3,432 Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections 2004 VLDB 7.3040202e-05
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