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Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory

Summary: Zen is a high-throughput, log-free OLTP engine for non-volatile main memory, tackling metadata and write management. Key ideas: metadata-enhanced tuple cache, log-free persistent transactions, and lightweight NVM space management; delivers up to 10.1x throughput and fast recovery on Optane DC PMem. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12598
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
4.8417653e-05
Overall Rank
7,080 | 50.75%
DOI
10.14778/3446095.3446105

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
4,583 Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management 2023 SIGMOD 6.0676378e-05
7,043 NVM: Is it Not Very Meaningful for Databases? 2023 VLDB 4.8539749e-05
7,630 Evaluating Persistent Memory Range Indexes: Part Two 2022 VLDB 4.6923637e-05
8,119 DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems 2024 VLDB 4.5809563e-05
8,258 Index Checkpoints for Instant Recovery in In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 4.5487249e-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
9 Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems 1984 SIGMOD 0.0014279444
86 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00052563276
87 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00052389723
419 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023720338
576 Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory 2011 CIDR 0.00019865648
635 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018879031
680 FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001821501
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
1,069 Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014319266
1,312 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012652548
1,405 BzTree: A High-Performance Latch-free Range Index for Non-Volatile Memory 2018 VLDB 0.00012174592
1,436 Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications 2011 SIGMOD 0.00011987961
1,661 Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010978755
1,691 A Recovery Algorithm for A High-Performance Memory-Resident Database System 1987 SIGMOD 0.00010903706
1,692 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.00010901611
1,842 Write-Behind Logging 2017 VLDB 0.00010345337
1,961 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 9.9514005e-05
2,510 LB+-Trees: Optimizing Persistent Index Performance on 3DXPoint Memory 2020 VLDB 8.6204284e-05
2,626 NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems 2015 VLDB 8.4273618e-05
2,802 Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.0989124e-05
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