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Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads?

Summary: Empirical study of 111 OSS apps (30k+ transactions) tests two common workload assumptions behind high-performance OLTP designs. Finds the second assumption is stronger: 90% have ≥58% read/write sets inferable; 39% are non-interactive, and 61% could be so with minimal changes, reshaping OLTP expressivity and performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7206
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2025
Pagerank
4.2626861e-05
Overall Rank
9,869 | 31.42%
DOI
10.1145/3725268

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10,056 Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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88 The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.0005262025
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0004532783
136 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042409816
883 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00015581085
961 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.00015028453
1,086 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.00014159702
1,217 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00013228757
1,521 High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility 2017 VLDB 0.00011522701
1,827 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010389522
1,985 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.8619045e-05
2,242 Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild 2021 VLDB 9.2124242e-05
2,358 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 8.9675888e-05
2,370 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 8.9457118e-05
2,602 What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Concurrency Control Research 2017 SIGMOD 8.4638236e-05
2,926 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 7.8868401e-05
3,416 An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems 2014 VLDB 7.1162306e-05
3,443 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 7.0871666e-05
3,517 Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity 2015 SIGMOD 7.0183022e-05
4,057 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 6.4889756e-05
4,546 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 6.0909987e-05
4,725 STAR: Scaling Transactions through Asymmetric Replication 2019 VLDB 5.9635555e-05
5,776 Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases 2021 VLDB 5.328271e-05
5,835 Ad Hoc Transactions in Web Applications: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2022 SIGMOD 5.3080741e-05
5,852 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 5.2987165e-05
6,297 Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks 2020 SIGMOD 5.1192861e-05
6,635 Fine-Grained Re-Execution for Efficient Batched Commit of Distributed Transactions 2023 VLDB 4.9780665e-05
6,694 WeBridge: Synthesizing Stored Procedures for Large-Scale Real-World Web Applications 2024 SIGMOD 4.9552327e-05
6,858 When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database 2023 SIGMOD 4.9013358e-05
7,211 Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems 2024 VLDB 4.7944503e-05
7,406 Database Isolation By Scheduling 2021 VLDB 4.7330129e-05
7,617 Developer’s Responsibility or Database’s Responsibility? Rethinking Concurrency Control in Databases 2023 CIDR 4.6901099e-05
7,830 Natto: Providing Distributed Transaction Prioritization for High-Contention Workloads 2022 SIGMOD 4.6373432e-05
9,721 NOC-NOC: Towards Performance-optimal Distributed Transactions 2024 SIGMOD 4.2918769e-05
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