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: 13891
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,333 | 22.25%
DOI: 10.14778/3704965.3704966

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Authors

1. Michael Fruth (University of Passau)
2. Stefanie Scherzinger (University of Passau)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fruth_vldb24,
        title = {{The Case for DBMS Live Patching}},
        author = {Fruth, Michael and Scherzinger, Stefanie},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {13},
        pages = {4557--4570},
        doi = {10.14778/3704965.3704966},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3704965.3704966},
        year = {2024}
}

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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
66	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00038561587
226	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00024027277
1,255	Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011472627
1,352	Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook	2013	VLDB	0.00011064595
3,344	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	7.4980897e-05
4,018	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.952278e-05
4,607	Adaptive NUMA-aware data placement and task scheduling for analytical workloads in main-memory column-stores	2017	VLDB	6.6088324e-05
4,868	RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems	2011	VLDB	6.4713322e-05
5,019	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	6.3987706e-05
5,727	Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level	2023	VLDB	6.1077281e-05
11,201	Live Patching for Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Stores	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,552	Live Patching Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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