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An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control

Summary: Empirical study of MVCC on multi-core hardware, evaluating four design axes: concurrency protocol, version storage, GC, and index management. Implemented MVCC variants in in-memory DBMS and evaluated OLTP workloads to reveal bottlenecks and scaling limits. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h179a78ed557ac875
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00013342029
Overall Rank
872 | 94.14%
DOI
10.14778/3067421.3067427

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BibTeX Citation

@article{wu_vldb17,
        title = {{An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control}},
        author = {Wu, Yingjun and Arulraj, Joy and Lin, Jiexi and Xian, Ran and Pavlo, Andrew},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {7},
        pages = {781--792},
        doi = {10.14778/3067421.3067427},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3067421.3067427},
        year = {2017}
}

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170 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.0002705961
221 ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes 1990 VLDB 0.00024274803
228 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023920439
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1,632 Positional Update Handling in Column Stores 2010 SIGMOD 0.00010021251
2,632 Hybrid Garbage Collection for Multi-Version Concurrency Control in SAP HANA 2016 SIGMOD 8.1995358e-05
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