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: h1543200142b56917
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.3127636e-05
Overall Rank: 8,571 | 42.38%
DOI: 10.1145/3709714

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Authors

1. Xinjing Zhou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Viktor Leis (Technical University of Munich)
3. Jinming Hu (DolphinDB Inc.)
4. Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin)
5. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhou_sigmod25,
        title = {{Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass}},
        author = {Zhou, Xinjing and Leis, Viktor and Hu, Jinming and Yu, Xiangyao and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3709714},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3709714},
        year = {2025}
}

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9,022	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	5.2349846e-05
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10,347	Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass	2026	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
10,669	Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,866	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,946	Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041219077
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038531147
80	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036364464
106	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033526937
179	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00026611886
680	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00014828697
1,282	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011210073
2,920	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	7.8540089e-05
3,358	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	7.3812131e-05
3,463	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	7.2821994e-05
4,094	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.8103269e-05
4,167	Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory	2021	SIGMOD	6.7656035e-05
4,761	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	6.4302502e-05
5,160	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.2482143e-05
5,545	Tigger: A Database Proxy That Bounces With User-Bypass	2023	VLDB	6.0886041e-05
5,837	Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level	2023	VLDB	5.9752637e-05
6,257	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	5.8334552e-05
7,073	Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes	2024	CIDR	5.6067524e-05
7,741	Lotus: Scalable Multi-Partition Transactions on Single-Threaded Partitioned Databases	2022	VLDB	5.4614829e-05
7,915	Tastes Great! Less Filling! High Performance and Accurate Training Data Collection for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	5.4276987e-05
7,959	Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware	2024	VLDB	5.4175386e-05
8,129	Two is Better Than One: The Case for 2-Tree for Skewed Data Sets	2023	CIDR	5.3938156e-05
8,473	Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory	2024	SIGMOD	5.3345353e-05
9,131	Taking the Shortcut: Actively Incorporating the Virtual Memory Index of the OS to Hardware-Accelerate Database Indexing	2024	CIDR	5.2231746e-05
9,642	Towards Adaptive Storage Views in Virtual Memory	2023	CIDR	5.1453723e-05
11,766	R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications	2023	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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