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: 7058
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.3750062e-05
Overall Rank: 9,189 | 36.14%
DOI: 10.1145/3709714

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136	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042409816
145	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00041403894
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040580118
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039408116
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.0002815547
1,273	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012870386
1,649	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011006201
3,688	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	6.8370783e-05
3,724	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	6.8121422e-05
3,919	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	6.6260396e-05
4,579	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.0651118e-05
4,816	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	5.897817e-05
5,101	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	5.6938328e-05
5,246	Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level	2023	VLDB	5.6017022e-05
6,166	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	5.1730118e-05
6,579	Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass	2023	VLDB	4.9986207e-05
6,878	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	4.893966e-05
7,123	Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes	2024	CIDR	4.8197122e-05
7,929	Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware	2024	VLDB	4.6091978e-05
8,036	Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.5965825e-05
8,131	Lotus: Scalable Multi-Partition Transactions on Single-Threaded Partitioned Databases	2022	VLDB	4.5742014e-05
8,185	Two is Better Than One: The Case for 2-Tree for Skewed Data Sets	2023	CIDR	4.5614825e-05
8,422	Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory	2024	SIGMOD	4.5114807e-05
8,966	Taking the Shortcut: Actively Incorporating the Virtual Memory Index of the OS to Hardware-Accelerate Database Indexing	2024	CIDR	4.4162651e-05
9,368	Towards Adaptive Storage Views in Virtual Memory	2023	CIDR	4.3465335e-05
11,257	R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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