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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
4109
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0002863588
Overall Rank
157 | 98.93%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376713

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{harizopoulos_sigmod08,
        title = {{OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There}},
        author = {Harizopoulos, Stavros and Abadi, Daniel J. and Madden, Samuel and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376713},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376713},
        year = {2008}
}

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