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Write-Behind Logging

Summary: Write-behind logging for DBMSs on NVM; logs changed data, not the exact operations, to exploit fine-grained persistence. Flushing changes before logging enables near-instant recovery, 1.3x throughput, >100x faster recovery, and 1.5x smaller storage footprint, replication-compatible. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11531
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00010345337
Overall Rank
1,842 | 87.19%
DOI
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87 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00052389723
289 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00028938503
419 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023720338
763 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017025851
792 Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory 2014 VLDB 0.0001661112
819 Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory 2015 VLDB 0.00016298164
952 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015103873
1,004 Storage Management in the NVRAM Era 2014 VLDB 0.00014695628
1,700 Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010858865
2,626 NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems 2015 VLDB 8.4273618e-05
2,646 REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures 2015 VLDB 8.3829289e-05
6,886 SQLite Optimization with Phase Change Memory for Mobile Applications 2015 VLDB 4.893932e-05
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