Data-Oriented Transaction Execution

Summary: DORA decomposes transactions into data-bound actions and assigns actions to threads by accessed data, reducing contention on the centralized lock manager. ACID guarantees on a conventional storage engine; up to 4.8x throughput on multicore OLTP workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10329
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00023172982
Overall Rank: 256 | 98.25%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920959

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ippokratis Pandis (Carnegie Mellon University; EPFL)
2. Ryan Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University; EPFL)
3. Nikos Hardavellas (Northwestern University)
4. Anastasia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University; EPFL)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pandis_vldb10,
        title = {{Data-Oriented Transaction Execution}},
        author = {Pandis, Ippokratis and Johnson, Ryan and Hardavellas, Nikos and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {928--939},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920959},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920959},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 59 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,607	Sharing Opportunities for OLTP Workloads in Different Isolation Levels	2020	VLDB	5.2473912e-05
9,858	Adaptive Energy-Control for In-Memory Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	5.2061847e-05
10,068	MorphStore — In-Memory Query Processing based on Morphing Compressed Intermediates LIVE	2019	SIGMOD	5.1643809e-05
10,798	Wait and See: A Delayed Transactions Partitioning Approach in Deterministic Database Systems for Better Performance	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,628	AnyDB: An Architecture-less DBMS for Any Workload	2021	CIDR	5.093636e-05
11,922	Energy-Utility Function-Based Resource Control for In-Memory Database Systems LIVE	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,981	The Next 700 Transaction Processing Engines	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,087	A Multicore Database Is Not a Distributed System	2015	CIDR	5.093636e-05
13,642	Toward Scalable Transaction Processing: Evolution of Shore-MT	2013	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
64	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038756588
68	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00038446206
126	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00030779127
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002863588
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
374	Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion	2007	CIDR	0.00019766683
383	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine	2005	SIGMOD	0.00019520728
561	A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016525248
773	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.00014131021
1,282	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011338762
1,458	Adaptive Locking Strategies in a Multi-node Data Sharing Environment	1991	VLDB	0.00010723424
2,311	Cache Fusion: Extending Shared-Disk Clusters with Shared Caches	2001	VLDB	8.7650567e-05
12,759	Optimistic Intra-Transaction Parallelism on Chip Multiprocessors	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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