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Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance

Summary: Introduces QURO, a query-aware compiler that reorders transactional queries to reduce contention. OLTP benchmarks show up to 6.53x throughput gains and 85% latency reductions by delaying contentious queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11336
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.6408169e-05
Overall Rank
2,498 | 82.65%
DOI
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1,521 High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility 2017 VLDB 0.00011522701
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.8868401e-05
3,117 Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation 2018 SIGMOD 7.5400979e-05
3,411 SQLCheck: Automated Detection and Diagnosis of SQL Anti-Patterns 2020 SIGMOD 7.1215953e-05
4,715 Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking 2021 SIGMOD 5.9692979e-05
4,730 UDO: Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning 2021 VLDB 5.9604983e-05
5,562 Fast Failure Recovery for Main-Memory DBMSs on Multicores 2017 SIGMOD 5.4343594e-05
5,623 New Directions in Cloud Programming 2021 CIDR 5.4050025e-05
6,062 OLTPShare: The Case for Sharing in OLTP Workloads 2018 VLDB 5.2267464e-05
6,297 Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks 2020 SIGMOD 5.1192861e-05
6,518 How Good is My HTAP System? 2022 SIGMOD 5.0250374e-05
6,521 Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 SIGMOD 5.0235836e-05
6,547 C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up 2023 VLDB 5.0123866e-05
7,687 Towards Optimal Transaction Scheduling 2024 VLDB 4.6745165e-05
8,075 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 4.5888845e-05
8,180 Demonstrating UDO: A Unified Approach for Optimizing Transaction Code, Physical Design, and System Parameters via Reinforcement Learning 2021 SIGMOD 4.5627116e-05
9,814 Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates 2021 VLDB 4.2742278e-05
9,818 Generating Application-Specific Data Layouts for In-memory Databases 2019 VLDB 4.2733415e-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
11,521 Interactive Demonstration of SQLCheck 2021 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,546 View-Driven Optimization of Database-Backed Web Applications 2020 CIDR 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
632 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018895506
1,457 Rewriting Procedures for Batched Bindings 2008 VLDB 0.00011891025
1,483 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011713238
2,712 A Scalable Lock Manager for Multicores 2013 SIGMOD 8.2530512e-05
3,312 Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications 2012 VLDB 7.2356116e-05
3,605 Lazy Evaluation of Transactions in Database Systems 2014 SIGMOD 6.9247155e-05
4,164 Sloth: Being Lazy is a Virtue (When Issuing Database Queries) 2014 SIGMOD 6.3859482e-05
4,458 Latch-Free Data Structures for DBMS: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation 2013 SIGMOD 6.1617961e-05
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