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Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores
Summary: Evaluation of seven CC algorithms on a main-memory DBMS scaled to 1024 cores reveals universal scalability bottlenecks as core counts rise. Incremental fixes fail; bottlenecks persist, arguing for a DBMS redesign tightly coupled to hardware.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 11126
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2015
- Pagerank
- 0.00018879031
- Overall Rank
- 635 | 95.59%
- DOI
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