The Design of XPRS

Summary: XPRS proposes a general-purpose DBMS on shared-memory multiprocessors spanning OLTP, ad-hoc queries, and large objects. Its distinctive architecture combines fast paths, specialized concurrency control, a 2D file system, parallelism, and efficient disk mirroring for high performance and availability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hbc0459c0d30d0412
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00017291748
Overall Rank: 499 | 96.65%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Randy Katz (University of California Berkeley)
3. David Patterson (University of California Berkeley)
4. John Ousterhout (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb88,
        title = {{The Design of XPRS}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Katz, Randy and Patterson, David and Ousterhout, John},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '88},
        pages = {318},
        year = {1988}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034607573
477	Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1989	SIGMOD	0.00017640718
792	Parametric Query Optimization	1992	VLDB	0.00013938197
845	Exploiting Inter-Operation Parallelism in XPRS	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013527474
1,288	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.00011178484
1,738	Using Segmented Right-Deep Trees for the Execution of Pipelined Hash Joins	1992	VLDB	9.7467088e-05
2,138	Optimization of Multi-Way Join Queries for Parallel Execution	1991	VLDB	8.9747973e-05
2,267	Parallel evaluation of multi-join queries	1995	SIGMOD	8.7192424e-05
2,651	A Performance Analysis of Alternative Multi-Attribute Declustering Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	8.1699714e-05
2,896	A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions	1990	VLDB	7.8885604e-05
3,301	On Optimal Processor Allocation To Support Pipelined Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.4403855e-05
4,712	On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins	1994	SIGMOD	6.4543768e-05
4,757	Performance Analysis of a Load Balancing Hash-Join Algorithm for a Shared Memory Multiprocessor	1991	VLDB	6.4294796e-05
5,565	Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays	1991	SIGMOD	6.0799258e-05
7,947	A Non-Uniform Data Fragmentation Strategy for Parallel Main-Memory Database Systems	1995	VLDB	5.4190982e-05
8,295	Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios	2008	VLDB	5.3589408e-05
8,803	Performance Evaluation of Semantics-based Multilevel Concurrency Control Protocols	1990	SIGMOD	5.2730514e-05
9,290	Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems	1997	VLDB	5.2011172e-05
10,931	Virtualizing Recursion: Just-In-Time Graph Analytics in a Hyperscale Relational Warehouse	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,782	From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games	2009	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
12,932	InfiniteDB: a PC-Cluster based Parallel Massive Database Management System	2007	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049129967
54	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00040482761
118	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00031381726
137	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00029708689
156	Multiprocessor Hash-Based Join Algorithms	1985	VLDB	0.00028509887
196	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025616489
592	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00015835128
662	The Implementation of An Integrated Concurrency Control and Recovery Scheme	1982	SIGMOD	0.00015001272
1,143	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011842018
3,062	Design and Evaluation of Parallel Pipelined Join Algorithms	1987	SIGMOD	7.6910609e-05

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