GitHub - rxin/db-readings: Readings in DatabasesThe Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb (1997): This paper (and the original one proposed 10 years earlier) illustrates a quantitative formula to calculate whether a data page should be cached in memory or not. It is a delight to read Jim Gray approach to an array of related problems, e.g. how big should a page size be. AlphaSort: A Cache-Sensitive Parallel
