An Overview of DB2 Parallel Edition

Summary: DB2 PE uses a shared-nothing, node-per-processor MP architecture with independent DBMs and inter-node message-passing. Tables are hash-partitioned; a cost-based optimizer uses partitioning metadata to generate parallel plans. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hed6d44aebc56b859
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 8.4034235e-05
Overall Rank: 2,480 | 83.34%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223876

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Authors

1. Chaitanya Baru (IBM)
2. Gilles Fecteau (IBM)
3. Ambuj Goyal (IBM)
4. Hui-i Hsiao (IBM)
5. Anant Jhingran (IBM)
6. Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM)
7. Walter Wilson (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{baru_sigmod95,
        title = {{An Overview of DB2 Parallel Edition}},
        author = {Baru, Chaitanya and Fecteau, Gilles and Goyal, Ambuj and Hsiao, Hui-i and Jhingran, Anant and Padmanabhan, Sriram and Wilson, Walter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223876},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223876},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
187	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00025914764
847	High-Performance Sorting on Networks of Workstations	1997	SIGMOD	0.00013517696
1,206	NUMA-aware algorithms: the case of data shuffling	2013	CIDR	0.00011536099
8,192	Progressive Optimization in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database	2007	SIGMOD	5.379021e-05
12,820	Adaptively Parallelizing Distributed Range Queries	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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