NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems

Summary: NVRAM-aware logging uses NVRAM only for the log, not the full database, to balance cost and performance. Per-transaction logging removes log-buffer bottlenecks, enabling concurrency, with 1.4–2.7x gains over all-NVRAM, 1.2–6.7x over PMFS, and ~20% over distributed logging. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11340
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.7254375e-05
Overall Rank: 2,338 | 83.97%
DOI: 10.14778/2735496.2735502

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Authors

1. Jian Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Moinuddin K. Qureshi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb15,
        title = {{NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems}},
        author = {Huang, Jian and Schwan, Karsten and Qureshi, Moinuddin K.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {4},
        pages = {389--400},
        doi = {10.14778/2735496.2735502},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735496.2735502},
        year = {2015}
}

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760	Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions	2017	SIGMOD	0.0001425909
1,258	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011438197
1,480	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010649376
3,455	How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System	2017	SIGMOD	7.4000022e-05
3,526	Understanding the Idiosyncrasies of Real Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	7.3429293e-05
4,763	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.519206e-05
6,531	Taurus: Lightweight Parallel Logging for In-Memory Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	5.8490101e-05
6,776	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.777467e-05
6,859	Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory	2021	VLDB	5.7520461e-05
6,949	SQLite Optimization with Phase Change Memory for Mobile Applications	2015	VLDB	5.7306218e-05
7,434	Database Isolation By Scheduling	2021	VLDB	5.619487e-05
8,167	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	5.4745703e-05
8,264	DASH: Database Shadowing for Mobile DBMS	2019	VLDB	5.4574671e-05
10,770	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,763	Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00083340894
561	A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016525248
603	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.00015853456
840	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.00013683877
1,014	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012650747
1,105	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00012151254
1,282	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011338762
3,880	Controlled Lock Violation	2013	SIGMOD	7.0491452e-05
5,663	Early Hash Join: A Configurable Algorithm for the Efficient and Early Production of Join Results	2005	VLDB	6.1298345e-05

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