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: 11532
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00010356306
Overall Rank: 1,835 | 87.25%
DOI: -

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87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052844656
286	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.0002894802
419	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023720294
756	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00017079523
781	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.00016667457
809	Persistent B+-Trees in Non-Volatile Main Memory	2015	VLDB	0.00016409797
940	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015149366
954	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.0001509523
1,697	Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010859294
2,628	NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems	2015	VLDB	8.4290885e-05
2,634	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.4091408e-05
6,887	SQLite Optimization with Phase Change Memory for Mobile Applications	2015	VLDB	4.8902132e-05

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