Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal

Summary: Daytona translates Cymbal (SQL subset) into C and compiles to native code for speed, with B-tree indexing, locking, and recovery, using two compression schemes plus horizontal partitioning to scale to terabytes. Unlike monolithic DBMS, it reuses UNIX tools, staying small, open, and easy to administer while handling 70k+ queries per month. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h939b8a039ca4bf03
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00011572943
Overall Rank: 1,196 | 91.97%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304242

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Authors

1. Rick Greer (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{greer_sigmod99,
        title = {{Daytona And The Fourth-Generation Language Cymbal}},
        author = {Greer, Rick},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304242},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304242},
        year = {1999}
}

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