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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
0.00052844656
Overall Rank
87 | 99.40%
DOI
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4,348 Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System 2018 VLDB 6.2587037e-05
4,363 Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond 2014 SIGMOD 6.2476591e-05
4,382 HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next 2022 SIGMOD 6.2318984e-05
4,447 MorphoSys: Automatic Physical Design Metamorphosis for Distributed Database Systems 2020 VLDB 6.1745324e-05
4,452 Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads 2018 VLDB 6.1693569e-05
4,453 CLAMShell: Speeding up Crowds for Low-latency Data Labeling 2016 VLDB 6.1690121e-05
4,523 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 6.1102901e-05
4,597 Scalable Replay-Based Replication For Fast Databases 2017 VLDB 6.0539632e-05
4,625 Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy 2015 VLDB 6.0343309e-05
4,632 Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores 2016 SIGMOD 6.0286531e-05
4,639 Fast Scans on Key-Value Stores 2017 VLDB 6.0229334e-05
4,666 Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing 2020 VLDB 6.005349e-05
4,715 Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking 2021 SIGMOD 5.9692979e-05
4,725 STAR: Scaling Transactions through Asymmetric Replication 2019 VLDB 5.9635555e-05
4,773 Latch-free Synchronization in Database Systems: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold? 2017 CIDR 5.9280553e-05
4,833 Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems 2018 SIGMOD 5.8881564e-05
4,845 Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism 2016 SIGMOD 5.8731048e-05
4,852 Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency 2014 VLDB 5.8712723e-05
5,059 G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture 2022 VLDB 5.7207311e-05
5,060 The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines 2024 VLDB 5.7175345e-05
5,101 Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting 2018 SIGMOD 5.6938328e-05
5,175 Data Management in Non-Volatile Memory 2015 SIGMOD 5.6391661e-05
5,184 Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory 2015 VLDB 5.6360141e-05
5,246 Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level 2023 VLDB 5.6017022e-05
5,273 Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP 2016 SIGMOD 5.5919449e-05
5,362 Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines 2020 SIGMOD 5.5474601e-05
5,498 The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.4738497e-05
5,562 Fast Failure Recovery for Main-Memory DBMSs on Multicores 2017 SIGMOD 5.4343594e-05
5,612 Design and Evaluation of Storage Organizations for Read-Optimized Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 5.4104818e-05
5,680 Code generation for efficient query processing in managed runtimes 2014 VLDB 5.3759701e-05
5,769 Oasis: An Optimal Disjoint Segmented Learned Range Filter 2024 VLDB 5.3326049e-05
6,241 Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge 2020 VLDB 5.1357476e-05
6,245 Iterative Query Processing based on Unified Optimization Techniques 2019 SIGMOD 5.1341887e-05
6,274 Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly 2022 SIGMOD 5.1268676e-05
6,309 Long-lived Transactions Made Less Harmful 2020 SIGMOD 5.112289e-05
6,372 Optimization of Conjunctive Predicates for Main Memory Column Stores 2016 VLDB 5.0878306e-05
6,427 Rethink the Scan in MVCC Databases 2021 SIGMOD 5.0603217e-05
6,456 Toward a Better Understanding and Evaluation of Tree Structures on Flash SSDs 2021 VLDB 5.0505636e-05
6,477 Towards Unified Ad-hoc Data Processing 2014 SIGMOD 5.0408007e-05
6,518 How Good is My HTAP System? 2022 SIGMOD 5.0250374e-05
6,521 Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 SIGMOD 5.0235836e-05
6,525 Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities 2021 VLDB 5.0223854e-05
6,547 C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up 2023 VLDB 5.0123866e-05
6,556 Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency 2022 SIGMOD 5.0067913e-05
6,566 Robust Performance of Main Memory Data Structures by Configuration 2020 SIGMOD 5.0030559e-05
6,584 Adaptive Optimistic Concurrency Control for Heterogeneous Workloads 2019 VLDB 4.9975981e-05
6,593 Scalable Database Logging for Multicores 2018 VLDB 4.9956546e-05
6,597 Heracles: An Efficient Storage Model and Data Flushing for Performance Monitoring Timeseries 2021 VLDB 4.9940332e-05
6,649 Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation 2020 SIGMOD 4.9724735e-05
6,675 Exploiting Common Patterns for Tree-Structured Data 2017 SIGMOD 4.9615691e-05
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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
59 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.0006445664
136 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042409816
215 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00033609709
286 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.0002894802
336 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00027008897
594 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00019515008
2,505 HyPer-sonic Combined Transaction AND Query Processing 2011 VLDB 8.6299194e-05
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