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Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct
Summary: Trip report tracing DB-architecture evolution toward scalable, stable, simple, self-managing column stores from ARM to global clusters. Emphasizes hardware-conscious algorithms and self-management techniques for practical, maintainable column-store DBMS.
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Paper ID
hf60ea2fee09a15bd
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00014668058
Overall Rank
702 | 95.29%
DOI
10.14778/1687553.1687618
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@article{manegold_vldb09,
title = {{Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct}},
author = {Manegold, Stefan and Kersten, Martin L. and Boncz, Peter},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687618},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687618},
year = {2009}
}
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