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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
10634
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00010389522
Overall Rank
1,827 | 87.31%
DOI
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419 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023720294
632 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018895506
756 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017079523
1,022 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00014606725
1,217 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00013228757
1,351 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012439556
1,637 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.00011058532
1,813 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010452333
2,358 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 8.9675888e-05
2,370 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 8.9457118e-05
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.8868401e-05
3,416 An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems 2014 VLDB 7.1162306e-05
3,443 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 7.0871666e-05
3,605 Lazy Evaluation of Transactions in Database Systems 2014 SIGMOD 6.9247155e-05
3,747 BCC: Reducing False Aborts in Optimistic Concurrency Control with Low Cost for In-Memory Databases 2016 VLDB 6.7883562e-05
4,057 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 6.4889756e-05
4,452 Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads 2018 VLDB 6.1693569e-05
4,632 Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores 2016 SIGMOD 6.0286531e-05
4,845 Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism 2016 SIGMOD 5.8731048e-05
4,852 Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency 2014 VLDB 5.8712723e-05
5,223 Adaptive Concurrency Control: Despite the Looking Glass, One Concurrency Control Does Not Fit All 2017 CIDR 5.617782e-05
6,593 Scalable Database Logging for Multicores 2018 VLDB 4.9956546e-05
7,168 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.8073922e-05
7,406 Database Isolation By Scheduling 2021 VLDB 4.7330129e-05
9,814 Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates 2021 VLDB 4.2742278e-05
9,869 Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads? 2025 SIGMOD 4.2626861e-05
10,428 TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,329 Robustness Against Read Committed: A Free Transactional Lunch 2022 PODS 4.1905499e-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
88 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.0005262025
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0004532783
190 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.00035797633
215 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00033609709
286 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.0002894802
336 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00027008897
961 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.00015028453
1,148 Adaptive Locking Strategies in a Multi-node Data Sharing Environment 1991 VLDB 0.00013649358
1,442 Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment 1991 VLDB 0.00011947958
1,483 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011713238
2,742 Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System 1992 VLDB 8.1946686e-05
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