Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass
Summary: Introduces user-bypass, embedding DBMS-proxy logic in Linux eBPF kernel space to avoid user/kernel copies and syscall overhead. Tigger, a PostgreSQL-compatible proxy, cuts transaction latency by up to 29% and CPU use by 42% versus existing proxies. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Matthew Butrovich (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 2. Karthik Ramanathan (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 3. John Rollinson (Army Research Laboratory)
- 4. Wan Shen Lim (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 5. William Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 6. Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 7. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{butrovich_vldb23,
title = {{Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass}},
author = {Butrovich, Matthew and Ramanathan, Karthik and Rollinson, John and Lim, Wan Shen and Zhang, William and Sherry, Justine and Pavlo, Andrew},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {11},
pages = {3335--3348},
doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611530},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611479.3611530},
year = {2023}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,755 | Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD | 2024 | VLDB | 5.5519655e-05 |
| 8,863 | BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.3551396e-05 |
| 9,345 | Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.284891e-05 |
| 10,581 | Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,631 | OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck | 2025 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,969 | Improving DBMS Scheduling Decisions with Accurate Performance Prediction on Concurrent Queries | 2025 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 226 | OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00024027277 |
| 245 | Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00023458287 |
| 903 | An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control | 2017 | VLDB | 0.0001332486 |
| 1,334 | Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering | 2019 | VLDB | 0.00011123567 |
| 3,344 | RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible! | 2016 | VLDB | 7.4980897e-05 |
| 4,626 | In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging | 2021 | VLDB | 6.5985783e-05 |
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