A piggyback method to collect statistics for query optimization in database management systems. - Qiang Zhu 001; Brian Dunkel; Nandit Soparkar; Suyun Chen; Berni Schiefer; Tony Lai (CASCON, 1998)

A study of the impact of direct access I/O on relational database management systems. - Heidi Scott; Patrick Martin 001; Berni Schiefer (CASCON, 2002)

Piggyback Statistics Collection for Query Optimization: Towards a Self-Maintaining Database Management System. - Qiang Zhu 001; Brian Dunkel; Wing Lau; Suyun Chen; Berni Schiefer (Comput. J., 2004)

Empirical evaluation of multi-level buffer cache collaboration for storage systems. - Zhifeng Chen; Yan Zhang 004; Yuanyuan Zhou 001; Heidi Scott; Berni Schiefer (SIGMETRICS, 2005)

An XML transaction processing benchmark. - Matthias Nicola; Irina Kogan; Berni Schiefer (SIGMOD Conference, 2007)

Is it DSS or OLTP: automatically identifying DBMS workloads. - Said Elnaffar; Patrick Martin 001; Berni Schiefer; Sam Lightstone (J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2008)

DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store. - Vijayshankar Raman; Gopi K. Attaluri; Ronald Barber; Naresh Chainani; David Kalmuk; Vincent KulandaiSamy; Jens Leenstra; Sam Lightstone; Shaorong Liu; Guy M. Lohman; Tim Malkemus; René Müller 001; et al. (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2013)

Benchmarking SQL-on-Hadoop Systems: TPC or Not TPC? - Avrilia Floratou; Fatma Özcan; Berni Schiefer (WBDB, 2014)

In-memory BLU acceleration in IBM's DB2 and dashDB: Optimized for modern workloads and hardware architectures. - Ronald Barber; Guy M. Lohman; Vijayshankar Raman; Richard Sidle; Sam Lightstone; Berni Schiefer (ICDE, 2015)

SparkBench - A Spark Performance Testing Suite. - Dakshi Agrawal; Ali Raza Butt; Kshitij A. Doshi; Josep Lluís Larriba-Pey; Min Li; Frederick R. Reiss; Francois Raab; Berni Schiefer; Toyotaro Suzumura; Yinglong Xia (TPCTC, 2015)

Advanced features in IBM POWER8 systems. - Balaram Sinharoy; Randal C. Swanberg; Naresh Nayar; Bruce G. Mealey; Jeffrey Stuecheli; Berni Schiefer; Jens Leenstra; Joefon Jann; P. Oehler; D. Levitan; S. Eisen; D. Sanner; et al. (IBM J. Res. Dev., 2015)

Towards a Hybrid Design for Fast Query Processing in DB2 with BLU Acceleration Using Graphical Processing Units: A Technology Demonstration. - Sina Meraji; Berni Schiefer; Lan Pham; Lee Chu; Peter Kokosielis; Adam J. Storm; Wayne Young; Chang Ge 002; Geoffrey Ng; Kajan Kanagaratnam (SIGMOD Conference, 2016)

Designing a high performance cluster for large-scale SQL-on-hadoop analytics. - Ajay Dholakia; Prasad Venkatachar; Kshitij A. Doshi; Ravikanth Durgavajhala; Stewart Tate; Berni Schiefer; Matthew Sheard; Ramnath Sai Sagar (IEEE BigData, 2017)