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Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions

Summary: Single-node, multi-core in-memory transactional DB with serializable guarantees. Optimistic MVCC with loosely synchronized distributed clocks, best-effort inlining, and global contention-aware backoff deliver high throughput across diverse workloads, enabling tens of millions of transactions per second on a single machine and outperforming prior designs on TPC-C/YCSB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5392
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00014340396
Overall Rank
1,066 | 92.60%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064015

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