Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture

Summary: Anti-caching flips the storage hierarchy: main memory is primary, cold data moved to disk transactionally. Prototype in high-performance OLTP DBMS; compares to disk-based and memory-cache setups; reports up to 9x throughput gains for highly skewed workloads with data ~8× memory. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10681
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00014868633
Overall Rank: 980 | 93.20%
DOI: -

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9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.001426258
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071946446
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052844656
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
136	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042409816
215	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.00033609709
511	Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager	1994	VLDB	0.0002139773
679	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00018211621
3,759	In-Memory Data Management for Consumer Transactions: The TimesTen Approach	1999	SIGMOD	6.7791262e-05
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