High Performance Sql Through Low-Level System Integration

Summary: Integrates SQL with existing disk I/O and transaction subsystems, pushing processing to the server to cut message traffic. Exploits SQL semantics in buffer pools, filtering, and server-side locking to reach Tandem NonStop performance with high availability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd838297ec9ecdb64
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 5.7471426e-05
Overall Rank: 6,558 | 55.93%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50244

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andrea J. Borr (Tandem Computers)
2. Franco Putzolu (Tandem Computers)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{borr_sigmod88,
        title = {{HIGH PERFORMANCE SQL THROUGH LOW-LEVEL SYSTEM INTEGRATION}},
        author = {Borr, Andrea J. and Putzolu, Franco},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50244},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50244},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,155	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	5.3875977e-05
9,290	Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems	1997	VLDB	5.2011172e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,536	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	8.3294304e-05
2,633	Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach	1984	VLDB	8.1980985e-05

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