Modeling Hot Spots In Database Systems (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Analytical performance model for static locking producing asymptotically exact throughput and conflict probabilities via an ensemble-averaging technique, yielding a computationally tractable tool for DB performance analysis. Captures uniform access exactly and extends to model certain hot-spot (non-uniform) patterns; assumes transactions acquire all locks upfront, no deadlocks, and blocked transactions hold no locks. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 927
Venue: PODS
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 4.3177432e-05
Overall Rank: 9,616 | 33.11%
DOI: -

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11,180	MRVs: Enforcing Numeric Invariants in Parallel Updates to Hotspots with Randomized Splitting	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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