Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"

Summary: Compares coroutine-based and other techniques for hiding cache-miss latency in pointer-intensive hash tables, searches, Masstree, and Bw-tree. Detailed experiments expose when coroutine scheduling improves throughput and its practical tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11841
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 8.1507611e-05
Overall Rank: 2,767 | 81.02%
DOI: 10.14778/3236187.3236216

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Authors

1. Christopher Jonathan (University of Minnesota)
2. Umar Farooq Minhas (Microsoft)
3. James Hunter (Microsoft)
4. Justin Levandoski (Microsoft)
5. Gor Nishanov (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jonathan_vldb18,
        title = {{Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"}},
        author = {Jonathan, Christopher and Minhas, Umar Farooq and Hunter, James and Levandoski, Justin and Nishanov, Gor},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1702--1714},
        doi = {10.14778/3236187.3236216},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3236187.3236216},
        year = {2018}
}

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3,642	CoroGraph: Bridging Cache Efficiency and Work Efficiency for Graph Algorithm Execution	2024	VLDB	7.2312616e-05
3,644	CoroBase: Coroutine-Oriented Main-Memory Database Engine	2021	VLDB	7.2306862e-05
4,440	The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines	2024	VLDB	6.7049797e-05
4,780	Can Learned Models Replace Hash Functions?	2023	VLDB	6.5118885e-05
5,234	MxTasks: How to Make Efficient Synchronization and Prefetching Easy	2021	SIGMOD	6.3051801e-05
6,003	ThunderRW: An In-Memory Graph Random Walk Engine	2021	VLDB	6.0130964e-05
7,991	Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities	2020	VLDB	5.5107319e-05
8,234	The Case for Learned In-Memory Joins	2023	VLDB	5.460955e-05
8,238	Interleaved Multi-Vectorizing	2020	VLDB	5.4599422e-05
8,609	CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing	2025	VLDB	5.4023412e-05
8,785	Tao: Improving Resource Utilization while Guaranteeing SLO in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2024	SIGMOD	5.3735061e-05
9,499	GastCoCo: Graph Storage and Coroutine-Based Prefetch Co-Design for Dynamic Graph Processing	2024	VLDB	5.2602156e-05
9,547	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.2528121e-05
10,581	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,971	No Cap, This Memory Slaps: Breaking Through the Memory Wall of Transactional Database Systems with Processing-in-Memory	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,693	Approaching DRAM performance by using microsecond-latency flash memory for small-sized random read accesses: a new access method and its graph applications	2021	VLDB	5.093636e-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
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
67	Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory	2000	SIGMOD	0.00038461275
109	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.000331207
278	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022476841
948	BzTree: A High-Performance Latch-free Range Index for Non-Volatile Memory	2018	VLDB	0.0001303916
2,649	Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining	2016	VLDB	8.2926258e-05
2,890	Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins	2018	VLDB	7.9880033e-05
3,873	SAP HANA: The Evolution from a Modern Main-Memory Data Platform to an Enterprise Application Platform	2013	VLDB	7.0566747e-05

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