Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs
Summary: Evaluates production DBMSs in resource-disaggregated data centers (memory/storage decoupled from CPU) using MonetDB and PostgreSQL with TPC-H on a disaggregation OS. Finds substantial degradation overall, but identifies configurations where impact is mitigated or where DDCs outperform single-machine baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Qizhen Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Yifan Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Pennsylvania)
- 3. Xinyi Chen (University of Pennsylvania)
- 4. Sebastian Angel (University of Pennsylvania)
- 5. Ang Chen (Rice University)
- 6. Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
- 7. Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)
BibTeX Citation
@article{zhang_vldb20,
title = {{Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs}},
author = {Zhang, Qizhen and Cai, Yifan and Chen, Xinyi and Angel, Sebastian and Chen, Ang and Liu, Vincent and Loo, Boon Thau},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {9},
pages = {1568--1581},
doi = {10.14778/3397230.3397249},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3397230.3397249},
year = {2020}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 890 | Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00013241413 |
| 1,060 | Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00012219425 |
| 1,283 | Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00011205832 |
| 2,033 | Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching | 2018 | VLDB | 9.1538227e-05 |
| 2,139 | Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach | 2018 | VLDB | 8.9735524e-05 |
| 2,245 | Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.7615858e-05 |
| 3,136 | Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers | 2020 | CIDR | 7.605704e-05 |
| 3,432 | Cache-Conscious Radix-Decluster Projections | 2004 | VLDB | 7.300628e-05 |
| 3,496 | How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System | 2017 | SIGMOD | 7.2523692e-05 |
| 3,678 | Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity | 2019 | SIGMOD | 7.1030964e-05 |
| 5,204 | Global Memory Management in Client-Server DBMS Architectures | 1992 | VLDB | 6.2273985e-05 |
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