BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications

Summary: BPF-DB: a kernel-embedded transactional DBMS for eBPF apps, offering durable storage and ACID-like guarantees in kernel space. Shows a Redis-compatible transactional storage engine and a serializable stored-procedure DBMS, achieving 43% higher throughput than VoltDB. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7269
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.3551396e-05
Overall Rank: 8,863 | 39.20%
DOI: 10.1145/3725272

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Matthew Butrovich (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Samuel Arch (Carnegie Mellon University)
3. Wan Shen Lim (Carnegie Mellon University)
4. William Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
5. Jignesh M. Patel (Carnegie Mellon University)
6. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{butrovich_sigmod25,
        title = {{BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications}},
        author = {Butrovich, Matthew and Arch, Samuel and Lim, Wan Shen and Zhang, William and Patel, Jignesh M. and Pavlo, Andrew},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3725272},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725272},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,482	Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,581	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
103	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00034161428
172	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00027281663
903	An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	0.0001332486
1,213	MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph	2020	VLDB	0.00011646797
2,388	Low-Overhead Asynchronous Checkpointing in Main-Memory Database Systems	2016	SIGMOD	8.6474765e-05
3,189	Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System	1992	VLDB	7.6543667e-05
3,344	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	7.4980897e-05
3,784	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	7.1268687e-05
4,200	Disaggregating RocksDB: A Production Experience	2023	SIGMOD	6.835902e-05
5,019	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	6.3987706e-05
5,284	SQLite: Past, Present, and Future	2022	VLDB	6.2827906e-05
6,294	Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass	2023	VLDB	5.9239632e-05
7,785	Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	5.5450355e-05
7,802	Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware	2024	VLDB	5.5418836e-05
9,344	OSDB: Exposing the Operating System's Inner Database	2025	CIDR	5.284891e-05
9,345	Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass	2025	SIGMOD	5.284891e-05

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