OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck

Summary: Revisits 2008 OLTP assumptions with whole-stack benchmarks on modern hardware, showing inter-component communication and messaging—not CPU-bound buffer/concurrency work—are now the primary OLTP bottleneck. Analyzes stored-proc vs client-side models and shows stronger UDF isolation raises messaging costs, producing security/multi-tenant tradeoffs and motivating communication-efficient designs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 543
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,333 | 28.12%
DOI: -

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