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Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases

Summary: Partitioned main-memory OLTP with low-overhead concurrency control enabling progress on a partition during network stalls. Compare light-weight locking with speculative concurrency control; speculative CC avoids read/write tracking but may undo work, and can reach up to 2× throughput on a modified TPC-C when aborts or multi-round distributed transactions are rare. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4278
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.0001415654
Overall Rank
1,090 | 92.42%
DOI
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286 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00028990057
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