Database Paper Browser

Back to papers

OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There

Summary: Examines memory-resident OLTP by reworking Shore on a TPC-C to reveal hardware bottlenecks. Shows ~20x speedups via iterative feature removal and optimizations, revealing no single bottleneck; logging, locking, B-tree, and buffer management all matter. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4047
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0003354907
Overall Rank
215 | 98.51%
DOI
-

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 72 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
87 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00052389723
338 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00026973858
635 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018879031
679 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018215154
694 Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server 2010 SIGMOD 0.00018061803
735 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00017452467
763 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00017025851
952 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00015103873
982 Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture 2013 VLDB 0.00014872253
1,036 ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001452166
1,090 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001415654
1,109 FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance 2009 SIGMOD 0.00013976056
1,133 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.00013771132
1,217 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.0001323177
1,312 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012652548
1,373 Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging 2010 VLDB 0.00012309902
1,485 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011706232
1,603 PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP 2011 VLDB 0.00011196902
1,661 Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010978755
1,780 LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware 2013 VLDB 0.00010580669
1,832 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010380187
2,076 Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database 2014 VLDB 9.6059442e-05
2,307 On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 VLDB 9.0599752e-05
2,445 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 8.8057827e-05
2,482 Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research 2009 CIDR 8.6866058e-05
2,530 HyPer-sonic Combined Transaction AND Query Processing 2011 VLDB 8.5938865e-05
2,646 REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures 2015 VLDB 8.3829289e-05
2,802 Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.0989124e-05
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.884983e-05
2,948 Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 7.8341023e-05
2,964 In-Memory Performance for Big Data 2015 VLDB 7.80643e-05
3,103 High-Throughput Transaction Executions on Graphics Processors 2011 VLDB 7.5586143e-05
3,388 Analytics in Motion: High Performance Event-Processing AND Real-Time Analytics in the Same Database 2015 SIGMOD 7.1571148e-05
3,421 An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems 2014 VLDB 7.1139504e-05
3,481 Building High Throughput Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 VLDB 7.0534352e-05
3,749 BCC: Reducing False Aborts in Optimistic Concurrency Control with Low Cost for In-Memory Databases 2016 VLDB 6.7907876e-05
3,782 Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases 2016 SIGMOD 6.7722614e-05
3,826 To Lock, Swap, or Elide: On the Interplay of Hardware Transactional Memory and Lock-Free Indexing 2015 VLDB 6.7250243e-05
4,054 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 6.4919461e-05
4,235 Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory 2021 SIGMOD 6.3342932e-05
4,453 MorphoSys: Automatic Physical Design Metamorphosis for Distributed Database Systems 2020 VLDB 6.1723632e-05
4,469 Latch-Free Data Structures for DBMS: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation 2013 SIGMOD 6.1560208e-05
4,544 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.1000636e-05
4,597 Scalable Replay-Based Replication For Fast Databases 2017 VLDB 6.0588467e-05
4,845 Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism 2016 SIGMOD 5.8795333e-05
5,175 Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory 2015 SIGMOD 5.6439952e-05
5,272 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 5.5937875e-05
5,374 Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5424901e-05
5,448 Enabling Low Tail Latency on Multicore Key-Value Stores 2020 VLDB 5.501371e-05
5,505 A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems 2017 SIGMOD 5.4734224e-05
Previous Page 1 / 2 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
10 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.0012103754
21 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086087497
52 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00066474881
86 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00052563276
103 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00049150032
124 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.00045103515
174 ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes 1990 VLDB 0.00038347904
190 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.0003579699
233 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00032021526
238 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00031642425
292 Shoring Up Persistent Applications 1994 SIGMOD 0.00028741386
298 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00028591413
2,354 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.9685256e-05
2,582 Database Architectures for New Hardware 2004 VLDB 8.5007371e-05
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers

Overall Rank Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.884983e-05
137 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042342967
8,096 Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities 2020 VLDB 4.5860565e-05
1,090 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001415654
1,485 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011706232
10,333 OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck 2025 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
3,595 Database Buffer Size Investigation for OLTP Workloads 1997 SIGMOD 6.9373987e-05
11,776 The Next 700 Transaction Processing Engines 2017 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
2,445 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 8.8057827e-05
5,272 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 5.5937875e-05