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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
4048
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00028924889
Overall Rank
155 | 98.93%
DOI
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38 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00048098593
252 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00023458831
435 Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance 2020 CIDR 0.00018582199
468 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018049546
470 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00018014668
532 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001706426
658 ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015379103
716 Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture 2013 VLDB 0.00014799291
742 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00014499246
759 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.00014307739
820 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013864236
857 Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013604452
973 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012963904
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1,045 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.00012556928
1,100 FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance 2009 SIGMOD 0.00012264611
1,243 Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011579169
1,269 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011492319
1,342 PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP 2011 VLDB 0.0001119454
1,412 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010953568
1,460 LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware 2013 VLDB 0.0001078907
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1,816 On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 VLDB 9.7805779e-05
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2,209 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 9.0178314e-05
2,316 In-Memory Performance for Big Data 2015 VLDB 8.8407565e-05
2,345 REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures 2015 VLDB 8.7954047e-05
2,359 Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2015 SIGMOD 8.768282e-05
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2,632 Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research 2009 CIDR 8.3866911e-05
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3,282 To Lock, Swap, or Elide: On the Interplay of Hardware Transactional Memory and Lock-Free Indexing 2015 VLDB 7.6297132e-05
3,311 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 7.5961981e-05
3,418 Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases 2016 SIGMOD 7.5048466e-05
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4,009 Latch-Free Data Structures for DBMS: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation 2013 SIGMOD 7.0313041e-05
4,065 Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory 2021 SIGMOD 6.9915992e-05
4,367 Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism 2016 SIGMOD 6.80729e-05
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4,688 Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 6.6252658e-05
4,807 Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory 2015 SIGMOD 6.5655338e-05
4,825 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 6.5588117e-05
4,838 Enabling Low Tail Latency on Multicore Key-Value Stores 2020 VLDB 6.5513566e-05
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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
12 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00070779065
29 Database Architecture Optimized for the new Bottleneck: Memory Access 1999 VLDB 0.00052586133
44 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.00046049035
66 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00038926714
67 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00038604158
107 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.00033444898
205 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00025400403
213 ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes 1990 VLDB 0.00024933106
220 A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems 1986 VLDB 0.00024501959
253 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.00023416429
291 Shoring Up Persistent Applications 1994 SIGMOD 0.00022263373
370 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00020027973
2,637 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.3839049e-05
2,830 Database Architectures for New Hardware 2004 VLDB 8.1270828e-05
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