Memory Management Techniques for Large-Scale Persistent-Main-Memory Systems

Summary: PAllocator: a fail-safe, highly concurrent allocator for persistent SCM in large-scale non-volatile main memory. Introduces a defragmentation algorithm to address persistent memory fragmentation, achieving up to 10x throughput gains vs prior allocators and 2.39x faster persistent B-Trees. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11590
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.5879506e-05
Overall Rank: 4,647 | 68.12%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137629

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Authors

1. Ismail Oukid (SAP; Technical University of Dresden)
2. Daniel Booss (SAP)
3. Adrien Lespinasse (Independent)
4. Wolfgang Lehner (Technical University of Dresden)
5. Thomas Willhalm (Intel)
6. Grégoire Gomes (Grenoble Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{oukid_vldb17,
        title = {{Memory Management Techniques for Large-Scale Persistent-Main-Memory Systems}},
        author = {Oukid, Ismail and Booss, Daniel and Lespinasse, Adrien and Lehner, Wolfgang and Willhalm, Thomas and Gomes, Grégoire},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1166--1179},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137629},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137629},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,258	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011438197
1,368	Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory	2020	VLDB	0.00011003184
2,707	Evaluating Persistent Memory Range Indexes	2020	VLDB	8.2279594e-05
5,954	When Tree Meets Hash: Reducing Random Reads for Index Structures on Persistent Memories	2023	SIGMOD	6.0292226e-05
6,397	Halo: A Hybrid PMem-DRAM Persistent Hash Index with Fast Recovery	2022	SIGMOD	5.8869998e-05
6,679	Revisiting the Design of LSM-tree Based OLTP Storage Engine with Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	5.8050516e-05
7,666	Hardware-Oblivious SIMD Parallelism for In-Memory Column-Stores	2020	CIDR	5.57179e-05
9,547	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.2528121e-05
9,880	MEMO: Fine-grained Tensor Management For Ultra-long Context LLM Training	2025	SIGMOD	5.2040783e-05
10,011	Sage: Parallel Semi-Asymmetric Graph Algorithms for NVRAMs	2020	VLDB	5.1772034e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
491	FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017575163
537	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00016931517
1,480	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010649376
2,371	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.6793374e-05
2,951	Instant Recovery for Main-Memory Databases	2015	CIDR	7.9260674e-05

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