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: 0.0005146739
Overall Rank: 27 | 99.83%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Peter Boncz (Data Distilleries B.V.)
2. Stefan Manegold (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
3. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

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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12,306	Effective Temporal Dependence Discovery in Time Series Data	2018	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,734	A Demonstration of HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
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