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Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention
Summary: Identifies two design principles limiting multi-core OLTP scalability under contention: multi-purpose execution threads and lack of advanced access planning. ORTHRUS prototype demonstrates component separation and proactive planning, delivering an order-of-magnitude throughput increase on high-contention workloads.
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Paper ID
h1a00a3071f6d33f3
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.807697e-05
Overall Rank
2,221 | 85.12%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2882958
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ren_sigmod16,
title = {{Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention}},
author = {Ren, Kun and Faleiro, Jose M. and Abadi, Daniel J.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882958},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882958},
year = {2016}
}
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