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DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?

Summary: Hardware-level study of four commercial DBMSs on Xeon, using memory-resident queries to attribute execution time across caches, branches, and memory. Finds L2-oriented data placement, L1 instruction-cache optimization, and branch-prediction stalls—not raw processor speed—dominate gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
he027e6fffa18c38e
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00032696785
Overall Rank
110 | 99.27%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{ailamaki_vldb99,
        title = {{DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?}},
        author = {Ailamaki, Anastassia and DeWitt, David J. and Hill, Mark D. and Wood, David A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {266},
        year = {1999}
}

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14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00064013679
48 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043795812
68 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037957995
157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028316479
166 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00027241844
287 Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022001327
304 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021598803
362 Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs 2011 SIGMOD 0.00019999596
401 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.00019102313
431 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018400856
444 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.0001817002
547 Improving Index Performance through Prefetching 2001 SIGMOD 0.00016575635
634 Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases 2006 VLDB 0.00015367822
702 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00014668058
761 Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory 2002 PODS 0.00014138079
939 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00012964695
1,041 Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems 2002 VLDB 0.00012354465
1,105 Buffering Accesses to Memory-Resident Index Structures 2003 VLDB 0.00011991167
1,224 Vertex Priority Based Butterfly Counting for Large-scale Bipartite Networks 2019 VLDB 0.00011458287
1,380 H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store 2014 SIGMOD 0.00010858313
1,398 LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware 2013 VLDB 0.00010778761
1,438 Speedup Graph Processing by Graph Ordering 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010647473
1,454 Fast Computation of Database Operations using Graphics Processors 2004 SIGMOD 0.00010596726
1,586 Fractal Prefetching B+-Trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance 2002 SIGMOD 0.00010143882
1,642 Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique 2003 VLDB 0.00010002341
1,730 Improving the Performance of List Intersection 2009 VLDB 9.7686642e-05
1,933 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.3430609e-05
1,973 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 9.2817268e-05
2,019 Optimizing Multidimensional Index Trees for Main Memory Access 2001 SIGMOD 9.1749414e-05
2,124 Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture 2013 VLDB 9.0041425e-05
2,441 A Case for Staged Database Systems 2003 CIDR 8.4611767e-05
2,674 Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining 2016 VLDB 8.1445101e-05
2,699 Database Servers on Chip Multiprocessors: Limitations and Opportunities 2007 CIDR 8.1161623e-05
2,809 Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds" 2018 VLDB 7.9788276e-05
2,816 GPL: A GPU-based Pipelined Query Processing Engine 2016 SIGMOD 7.9740083e-05
2,926 Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins 2018 VLDB 7.8446029e-05
3,432 Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections 2004 VLDB 7.300628e-05
4,012 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.8540959e-05
4,026 Cache-conscious Frequent Pattern Mining on a Modern Processor 2005 VLDB 6.8430008e-05
4,066 Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond 2014 SIGMOD 6.8197032e-05
4,123 The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like? 2013 CIDR 6.7901576e-05
4,484 GPU Database Systems Characterization and Optimization 2024 VLDB 6.5776765e-05
4,873 Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors 2005 VLDB 6.370725e-05
4,900 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 6.3625602e-05
5,881 MCJoin: A Memory-Constrained Join for Column-Store Main-Memory Databases. 2012 SIGMOD 5.9575926e-05
5,899 HydraList: A Scalable In-Memory Index Using Asynchronous Updates and Partial Replication 2020 VLDB 5.9521778e-05
5,996 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 5.9173009e-05
6,790 STEPS Towards Cache-Resident Transaction Processing 2004 VLDB 5.6801599e-05
7,492 Non-Invasive Progressive Optimization for In-Memory Databases 2016 VLDB 5.5094171e-05
7,920 Cache-Oblivious Query Processing 2007 CIDR 5.4250739e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
76 Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing 1994 VLDB 0.00036891569
223 AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024120979
847 High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations 1997 SIGMOD 0.00013517696
1,823 Memory Management during Run Generation in External Sorting 1998 SIGMOD 9.5571894e-05
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