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)
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Authors
- 1. Cristian Diaconu
- 2. Craig Freedman
- 3. Erik Ismert
- 4. Per-Åke Larson
- 5. Pravin Mittal
- 6. Ryan Stonecipher
- 7. Nitin Verma
- 8. Mike Zwilling
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 156 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,772 | From In-Place Updates to In-Place Appends: Revisiting Out-of-Place Updates on Flash | 2017 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,776 | The Next 700 Transaction Processing Engines | 2017 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,862 | Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoSQL Global Secondary Index | 2016 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,887 | A Multicore Database Is Not a Distributed System | 2015 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,972 | Palette: Enabling Scalable Analytics for Big-Memory, Multicore Machines | 2014 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,063 | Microsoft SQL Server’s Integrated Database Approach for Modern Applications and Hardware | 2013 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| 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 |
| 2,530 | HyPer-sonic Combined Transaction AND Query Processing | 2011 | VLDB | 8.5938865e-05 |
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