Database Paper Browser

Back to papers

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
11127
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00018895506
Overall Rank
632 | 95.61%
DOI
-

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 66 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
756 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017079523
1,036 ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014515226
1,066 Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014340396
1,243 Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013087603
1,431 An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 0.00012021808
1,637 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.00011058532
1,958 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 9.9592064e-05
2,498 Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance 2016 VLDB 8.6408169e-05
2,548 An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 8.5594603e-05
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.8868401e-05
2,991 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 7.7701741e-05
3,443 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 7.0871666e-05
3,747 BCC: Reducing False Aborts in Optimistic Concurrency Control with Low Cost for In-Memory Databases 2016 VLDB 6.7883562e-05
3,789 Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions 2020 VLDB 6.7614151e-05
4,057 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 6.4889756e-05
4,348 Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System 2018 VLDB 6.2587037e-05
4,452 Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads 2018 VLDB 6.1693569e-05
4,500 GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS 2022 SIGMOD 6.1326735e-05
4,632 Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores 2016 SIGMOD 6.0286531e-05
4,715 Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking 2021 SIGMOD 5.9692979e-05
4,833 Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 5.8881564e-05
5,101 Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting 2018 SIGMOD 5.6938328e-05
5,223 Adaptive Concurrency Control: Despite the Looking Glass, One Concurrency Control Does Not Fit All 2017 CIDR 5.617782e-05
5,273 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 5.5919449e-05
5,482 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 5.4830927e-05
5,498 The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.4738497e-05
5,518 A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems 2017 SIGMOD 5.468383e-05
6,116 Database Processing-in-Memory: An Experimental Study 2020 VLDB 5.1995375e-05
6,314 HydraList: A Scalable In-Memory Index Using Asynchronous Updates and Partial Replication 2020 VLDB 5.1108651e-05
6,521 Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 SIGMOD 5.0235836e-05
6,556 Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency 2022 SIGMOD 5.0067913e-05
6,566 Robust Performance of Main Memory Data Structures by Configuration 2020 SIGMOD 5.0030559e-05
6,584 Adaptive Optimistic Concurrency Control for Heterogeneous Workloads 2019 VLDB 4.9975981e-05
6,668 Mainlining Databases: Supporting Fast Transactional Workloads on Universal Columnar Data File Formats 2021 VLDB 4.9647176e-05
6,905 Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks 2023 VLDB 4.8878659e-05
6,957 Taurus: Lightweight Parallel Logging for In-Memory Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 4.8810598e-05
7,071 Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions 2022 SIGMOD 4.8378766e-05
7,074 Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory 2021 VLDB 4.8372993e-05
7,229 Industrial-Strength OLTP Using Main Memory and Many Cores 2020 VLDB 4.790163e-05
7,325 LRU-C: Parallelizing Database I/Os for Flash SSDs 2023 VLDB 4.7564908e-05
7,559 Transaction Scheduling: From Conflicts to Runtime Conflicts 2023 SIGMOD 4.7065517e-05
7,585 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 4.7014496e-05
7,837 CUBIT: Concurrent Updatable Bitmap Indexing 2025 VLDB 4.6342964e-05
7,896 An Analysis of Concurrency Control Protocols for In-Memory Databases with CCBench 2020 VLDB 4.6188106e-05
7,989 Concurrent Prefix Recovery: Performing CPR on a Database 2019 SIGMOD 4.6088612e-05
8,075 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 4.5888845e-05
8,165 Scalable and Robust Snapshot Isolation for High-Performance Storage Engines 2023 VLDB 4.5680112e-05
8,264 Revisiting the Design of In-Memory Dynamic Graph Storage 2025 SIGMOD 4.541321e-05
8,389 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 4.5248654e-05
9,145 PHyTM: Persistent Hybrid Transactional Memory 2017 VLDB 4.3807881e-05
Previous Page 1 / 2 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers