Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting

Summary: HTAP MVCC with hybrid processing: OLAP on fine-grained virtual snapshots; OLTP uses the latest version. Introduces vm_snapshot, a custom system call for ultra-fast snapshots; 100x faster than fork, up to 4x OLAP speedup, and higher OLTP throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5612
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.5727393e-05
Overall Rank: 4,675 | 67.93%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196904

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Authors

1. Ankur Sharma (Saarland University)
2. Felix Martin Schuhknecht (Saarland University)
3. Jens Dittrich (Saarland University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sharma_sigmod18,
        title = {{Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting}},
        author = {Sharma, Ankur and Schuhknecht, Felix Martin and Dittrich, Jens},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196904},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196904},
        year = {2018}
}

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38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
172	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00027281663
233	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023815642
473	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00017900942
655	ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015263509
733	Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL	2012	VLDB	0.00014533437
903	An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	0.0001332486
1,141	Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores	2017	VLDB	0.0001200422
2,081	Efficient and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions	1992	SIGMOD	9.2021976e-05
3,344	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	7.4980897e-05

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