The Case for DBMS Live Patching

Summary: Advocates live patching DBMS binaries as an alternative to restarts or hot-standby rollover; identifies DBMS-specific challenges and proposes domain-specific quiescence-point strategies for safe thread migration. Empirically evaluates throughput and tail-latency trade-offs under realistic workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13703
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 11,127 | 22.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3704965.3704966

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Authors

1. Michael Fruth
2. Stefanie Scherzinger

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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
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
1,436	Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011987961
1,487	Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook	2013	VLDB	0.00011701099
3,933	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	6.617914e-05
4,583	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.0676378e-05
5,109	Adaptive NUMA-aware data placement and task scheduling for analytical workloads in main-memory column-stores	2017	VLDB	5.6908086e-05
5,120	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	5.6803959e-05
5,268	Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level	2023	VLDB	5.5966782e-05
5,320	RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems	2011	VLDB	5.5711465e-05
10,990	Live Patching for Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Stores	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,354	Live Patching Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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