A Multicore Database Is Not a Distributed System
Summary: Rejects modeling multicore DBs as shared-nothing per-core partitioning, which breaks down for skewed or dynamic workloads. Advocates workload-aware transaction scheduling to mitigate contention and scale concurrency control without rigid partitioning. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Neha Narula (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{narula_cidr15,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '15},
title = {{A Multicore Database Is Not a Distributed System}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Narula, Neha},
year = {2015}
}
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| 38 | Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00047648573 |
| 57 | Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00040139242 |
| 83 | H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00036185259 |
| 126 | Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00030779127 |
| 256 | Data-Oriented Transaction Execution | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00023172982 |
| 1,358 | PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP | 2011 | VLDB | 0.0001104203 |
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