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Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases

Summary: Dissects row/column tradeoffs via one query engine supporting both layouts, quantifying disk, cache, and CPU effects. Shows columns often win—up to 10×—and derives a hardware/workload model predicting the superior organization. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hfb07b60af47f45c8
Venue
VLDB
Year
2006
Pagerank
0.00015373122
Overall Rank
634 | 95.74%
DOI
10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006

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BibTeX Citation

@article{harizopoulos_vldb06,
        title = {{Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases}},
        author = {Harizopoulos, Stavros and Liang, Velen and Abadi, Daniel J. and Madden, Samuel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        pages = {487--498},
        doi = {10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vldb.2006.07.006},
        year = {2006}
}

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495 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017370758
705 Main-Memory Scan Sharing For Multi-Core CPUs 2008 VLDB 0.00014657491
762 Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS 2007 VLDB 0.00014140446
902 Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013184118
910 Dictionary-based Order-preserving String Compression for Main Memory Column Stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00013123912
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1,925 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.3670488e-05
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2,185 Database Compression on Graphics Processors 2010 VLDB 8.8948351e-05
2,476 One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results 2007 CIDR 8.409729e-05
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3,549 Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth 2008 VLDB 7.2119962e-05
4,577 To Share or Not to Share? 2007 VLDB 6.523408e-05
5,105 Online Deduplication for Databases 2017 SIGMOD 6.2713269e-05
5,827 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 5.979772e-05
6,057 Towards Energy-Efficient Database Cluster Design 2012 VLDB 5.900701e-05
6,970 Jigsaw: A Data Storage and Query Processing Engine for Irregular Table Partitioning 2021 SIGMOD 5.6311067e-05
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12,518 How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy 2013 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
12 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00068998927
14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00064031282
27 Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.0005158963
48 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043805923
61 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.000392237
110 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.00032700879
114 A Decomposition Storage Model 1985 SIGMOD 0.00031928929
195 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025628849
389 QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine 2005 SIGMOD 0.00019269777
401 A Case for Fractured Mirrors 2002 VLDB 0.00019108281
939 Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance 2004 SIGMOD 0.00012970078
1,192 Data Compression in Oracle 2003 VLDB 0.00011590015
2,918 Database Architectures for New Hardware 2004 VLDB 7.8578401e-05
5,996 Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization 2004 VLDB 5.9199971e-05
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