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Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine

Summary: SQL Server’s Hekaton is a memory-resident OLTP engine, fully integrated with T-SQL and memory-optimized durable tables. High concurrency comes from latch-free data structures and optimistic MVCC; mem-optimized procedures can be compiled to native code and access both mem-optimized and regular tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4643
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00052389723
Overall Rank
87 | 99.40%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
60 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00064439773
137 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042342967
215 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.0003354907
289 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00028938503
338 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00026973858
596 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019481482
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