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A Scalable Lock Manager for Multicores
Summary: Scalable multicore lock manager to avert throughput collapse from latch contention in DBMSs (e.g., MySQL). Bulk, staged allocation/deallocation of locks with simple list ops and fast deadlock checking enables fast acquire/release and lower contention.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 4680
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2013
- Pagerank
- 8.2477916e-05
- Overall Rank
- 2,713 | 81.13%
- DOI
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.
| Rank |
Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 635 |
Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00018879031 |
| 1,217 |
Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.0001323177 |
| 1,521 |
High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility |
2017 |
VLDB |
0.00011532045 |
| 2,513 |
Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance |
2016 |
VLDB |
8.6178149e-05 |
| 2,926 |
Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
7.884983e-05 |
| 2,964 |
In-Memory Performance for Big Data |
2015 |
VLDB |
7.80643e-05 |
| 3,586 |
Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
6.9435005e-05 |
| 4,054 |
Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
6.4919461e-05 |
| 4,454 |
Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads |
2018 |
VLDB |
6.1715229e-05 |
| 4,633 |
Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
6.0340758e-05 |
| 4,998 |
Latch-free Synchronization in Database Systems: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold? |
2017 |
CIDR |
5.7757413e-05 |
| 6,332 |
Long-lived Transactions Made Less Harmful |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
5.1070098e-05 |
| 6,592 |
Scalable Database Logging for Multicores |
2018 |
VLDB |
5.0000872e-05 |
| 10,418 |
TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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