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High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases

Summary: Two in-memory MVCC schemes (optimistic and pessimistic) for high-throughput DBs; avoid blocking, may wait at commit to ensure serializability. MVCC variants incur higher overhead but are less sensitive to hotspots and long-running transactions than single-version locking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10480
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00027597741
Overall Rank
171 | 98.82%
DOI
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18 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00059344857
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