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Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems

Summary: Proposes very lightweight locking (VLL) for in-memory DBs, replacing traditional lock managers. Paired with selective contention analysis (SCA), VLL sustains high throughput under contention, with experiments showing major locking-overhead reductions in single-machine and shared-nothing deployments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10633
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00010380187
Overall Rank
1,832 | 87.26%
DOI
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419 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023720338
635 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018879031
763 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017025851
1,028 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00014584518
1,217 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.0001323177
1,361 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012379741
1,692 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.00010901611
1,819 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010429773
2,369 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 8.9490403e-05
2,373 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 8.9476269e-05
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.884983e-05
3,421 An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems 2014 VLDB 7.1139504e-05
3,586 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 6.9435005e-05
3,605 Lazy Evaluation of Transactions in Database Systems 2014 SIGMOD 6.9281695e-05
3,749 BCC: Reducing False Aborts in Optimistic Concurrency Control with Low Cost for In-Memory Databases 2016 VLDB 6.7907876e-05
4,054 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 6.4919461e-05
4,454 Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads 2018 VLDB 6.1715229e-05
4,633 Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores 2016 SIGMOD 6.0340758e-05
4,845 Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism 2016 SIGMOD 5.8795333e-05
4,858 Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency 2014 VLDB 5.8732463e-05
5,227 Adaptive Concurrency Control: Despite the Looking Glass, One Concurrency Control Does Not Fit All 2017 CIDR 5.6180363e-05
6,592 Scalable Database Logging for Multicores 2018 VLDB 5.0000872e-05
7,169 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.8120082e-05
7,406 Database Isolation By Scheduling 2021 VLDB 4.7375424e-05
9,815 Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates 2021 VLDB 4.2783272e-05
9,870 Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads? 2025 SIGMOD 4.2667743e-05
10,418 TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,327 Robustness Against Read Committed: A Free Transactional Lunch 2022 PODS 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
86 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00052563276
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00045316749
190 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.0003579699
215 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.0003354907
289 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00028938503
338 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00026973858
959 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.00015025361
1,151 Adaptive Locking Strategies in a Multi-node Data Sharing Environment 1991 VLDB 0.00013650851
1,441 Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment 1991 VLDB 0.00011956167
1,485 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011706232
2,741 Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System 1992 VLDB 8.197051e-05
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