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Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems
Summary: Tux is a kernel-bypass networking stack for DBMSs that uses a message-based transport to natively preserve message boundaries and decouple reliability from in-order delivery, avoiding byte-stream framing and copy overhead. It leverages eBPF/XDP and a pushdown abstraction to run DBMS logic near the NIC while retaining compatibility via a drop-in libtux, yielding up to 2.3x throughput and markedly lower median and tail latencies versus prior kernel-bypass systems.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Mar 13 2026)
- Paper ID
- 14336
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2026
- Pagerank
- 4.1905499e-05
- Overall Rank
- 10,294 | 28.46%
- DOI
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10.14778/3778092.3778096
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