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Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control
Summary: Polaris adds multi-level priorities to optimistic concurrency control via a lightweight reservation, introducing minimal pessimism to enforce cross-priority progress. Results show high-priority p999 latency 13x lower than low-priority; 1.9x throughput and 17x tail-latency improvement versus Silo under contention.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6548
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 4.7014496e-05
- Overall Rank
- 7,585 | 47.29%
- DOI
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10.1145/3588724
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| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 363 |
CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00025750338 |
| 419 |
Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00023720294 |
| 486 |
TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database |
2020 |
VLDB |
0.00022039625 |
| 632 |
Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00018895506 |
| 756 |
FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
0.00017079523 |
| 1,066 |
Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
0.00014340396 |
| 1,637 |
Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores |
2017 |
VLDB |
0.00011058532 |
| 1,850 |
Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00010330316 |
| 1,958 |
TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control |
2016 |
SIGMOD |
9.9592064e-05 |
| 2,370 |
Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database |
2020 |
VLDB |
8.9457118e-05 |
| 3,011 |
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
7.716566e-05 |
| 3,975 |
On Being Optimistic about Real-Time Constraints |
1990 |
PODS |
6.5709157e-05 |
| 4,348 |
Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System |
2018 |
VLDB |
6.2587037e-05 |
| 4,715 |
Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
5.9692979e-05 |
| 6,274 |
Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.1268676e-05 |
| 6,556 |
Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.0067913e-05 |
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