Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass

Summary: Privileged kernel bypass via virtualization lets DB processes leverage hardware with few host changes. Libdbos provides two VM memory mechanisms—ms snapshots for HTAP/in-memory workloads and a streamlined kernel buffer pool—yielding lower latency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7057
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.3792034e-05
Overall Rank: 9,185 | 36.11%
DOI: 10.1145/3709714

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156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00028132402
1,284	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012837822
1,661	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010978755
3,688	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	6.8414694e-05
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3,933	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	6.617914e-05
4,235	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	6.3342932e-05
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5,268	Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level	2023	VLDB	5.5966782e-05
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8,183	Two is Better Than One: The Case for 2-Tree for Skewed Data Sets	2023	CIDR	4.5658208e-05
8,428	Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory	2024	SIGMOD	4.5158105e-05
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9,447	Towards Adaptive Storage Views in Virtual Memory	2023	CIDR	4.3402941e-05
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