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Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores
Summary: Transaction healing scales OCC on multicore main-memory DBs by deriving intra-transaction dependencies to heal instead of abort. Thread-local access caches reuse side effects for partial read/write updates; THEDB shows near-linear 48-core scaling and higher OCC throughput.
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Paper ID
5291
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
6.9738485e-05
Overall Rank
3,985 | 72.67%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2915202
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wu_sigmod16,
title = {{Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores}},
author = {Wu, Yingjun and Chan, Chee-Yong and Tan, Kian-Lee},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915202},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915202},
year = {2016}
}
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