What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Concurrency Control Research

Summary: Questions CC research assuming serializable isolation and stored procedures; a DBA survey shows this isn’t realistic. Advocates reorienting CC to hardware acceleration and AI-driven methods; real-world impact requires constraints beyond clever algorithms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5344
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 8.468229e-05
Overall Rank: 2,601 | 81.91%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3056096

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Authors

1. Andrew Pavlo

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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6,558	Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency	2022	SIGMOD	5.0115359e-05
6,692	WeBridge: Synthesizing Stored Procedures for Large-Scale Real-World Web Applications	2024	SIGMOD	4.9599916e-05
7,618	Developer’s Responsibility or Database’s Responsibility? Rethinking Concurrency Control in Databases	2023	CIDR	4.6944277e-05
7,825	Natto: Providing Distributed Transaction Prioritization for High-Contention Workloads	2022	SIGMOD	4.6417301e-05
7,842	ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching	2020	SIGMOD	4.6368238e-05
8,624	A Study of Database Performance Sensitivity to Experiment Settings	2022	VLDB	4.483049e-05
9,634	HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine	2022	SIGMOD	4.3122147e-05
9,870	Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads?	2025	SIGMOD	4.2667743e-05
10,099	PLForge: Enhancing Language Models for Natural Language to Procedural Extensions of SQL	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,333	OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck	2025	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,583	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,781	Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,407	IsoBugView: Interactively Debugging Isolation Bugs in Database Applications	2022	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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