High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases
Summary: Introduces two main-memory concurrency-control schemes: optimistic and pessimistic multiversioning, isolating readers while delaying waits until commit. Experiments show greater robustness to hotspots and long transactions than optimized single-version locking. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Per-Åke Larson (Microsoft)
- 2. Spyros Blanas (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Cristian Diaconu (Microsoft)
- 4. Craig Freedman (Microsoft)
- 5. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
- 6. Mike Zwilling (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{larson_vldb12,
title = {{High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases}},
author = {Larson, Per-Åke and Blanas, Spyros and Diaconu, Cristian and Freedman, Craig and Patel, Jignesh M. and Zwilling, Mike},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {4},
pages = {298--309},
doi = {10.14778/2095686.2095687},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2095686.2095687},
year = {2012}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058759613 |
| 237 | Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00023652724 |
| 261 | Data-Oriented Transaction Execution | 2010 | VLDB | 0.0002286084 |
| 528 | On Concurrency Control by Multiple Versions | 1982 | PODS | 0.00016867858 |
| 1,297 | Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011125055 |
| 2,081 | Modular Synchronization in Multiversion Databases: Version Control and Concurrency Control | 1989 | SIGMOD | 9.0739159e-05 |
| 3,635 | Multiversion Query Locking | 1992 | VLDB | 7.1451702e-05 |
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