SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service

Summary: SQLVM: a DBMS abstraction that reserves CPU, I/O and memory per tenant to provide performance isolation in multi-tenant DBaaS without static partitioning. Lightweight enforcement and metering implemented in Microsoft SQL Azure, scales to many tenants and yields markedly improved isolation with low overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 194
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00011122853
Overall Rank: 1,335 | 90.85%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft)
2. Sudipto Das (Microsoft)
3. Manoj Syamala (Microsoft)
4. Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft)
5. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{narasayya_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Narasayya, Vivek and Das, Sudipto and Syamala, Manoj and Chandramouli, Badrish and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        year = {2013}
}

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2,381	CPU Sharing Techniques for Performance Isolation in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2014	VLDB	8.6607625e-05
2,958	WiSeDB: A Learning-based Workload Management Advisor for Cloud Databases	2016	VLDB	7.9197796e-05
3,236	Sharing Buffer Pool Memory in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2015	VLDB	7.6108467e-05
4,335	Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling	2020	SIGMOD	6.7556868e-05
4,816	A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.4949878e-05
4,987	Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models	2017	CIDR	6.4112736e-05
5,015	Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	6.4000528e-05
5,591	Flexible Resource Allocation for Relational Database-as-a-Service	2023	VLDB	6.1556906e-05
5,681	Survivability of Cloud Databases - Factors and Prediction	2018	SIGMOD	6.1237253e-05
6,939	Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities	2022	SIGMOD	5.7338637e-05
7,334	Towards Optimal Transaction Scheduling	2024	VLDB	5.6425501e-05
7,673	ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads	2017	SIGMOD	5.5705944e-05
8,157	A Demonstration of SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	SIGMOD	5.4764953e-05
8,386	A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers	2020	VLDB	5.436614e-05
8,785	Tao: Improving Resource Utilization while Guaranteeing SLO in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2024	SIGMOD	5.3735061e-05
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8,910	Vertically Autoscaling Monolithic Applications with CaaSPER: Scalable Container-as-a-Service Performance Enhanced Resizing Algorithm for the Cloud	2024	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
9,039	Tempo: Robust and Self-Tuning Resource Management in Multi-tenant Parallel Databases	2016	VLDB	5.3267474e-05
9,728	Towards Database Virtualization for Database as a Service	2013	VLDB	5.2291583e-05
10,039	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	5.1723558e-05
10,098	Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud	2016	VLDB	5.1498503e-05
10,107	Re-evaluating Designs for Multi-Tenant OLTP Workloads on SSD-based I/O Subsystems	2014	SIGMOD	5.1435736e-05
10,686	ABase: the Multi-Tenant NoSQL Serverless Database for Diverse and Dynamic Workloads in Large-scale Cloud Environments	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,879	Fair Transaction Processing for Multi-Tenant Databases	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,001	veDB-HTAP: a Highly Integrated, Efficient and Adaptive HTAP System	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,289	X-Stor: A Cloud-native NoSQL Database Service with Multi-model Support	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,685	Toto - Benchmarking the Efficiency of a Cloud Service	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,084	Towards Systematic Data Center Design	2015	CIDR	5.093636e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
584	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00016139925
1,969	PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	9.3749819e-05
2,091	iCBS: Incremental Cost-based Scheduling under Piecewise Linear SLAs	2011	VLDB	9.1867579e-05

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