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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
4644
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00048098593
Overall Rank
38 | 99.74%
DOI
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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
26 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00054892115
82 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036499215
155 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028924889
171 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00027597741
252 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00023458831
423 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018787291
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