Contention-Aware Lock Scheduling for Transactional Databases

Summary: Reframes lock granting as a contention-aware scheduling problem, proving hardness and introducing LDSF/bLDSF with constant-factor guarantees. bLDSF delivers up to 300× lower transaction latency than FIFO; LDSF became MySQL’s default scheduler. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h1accfbe5f1c5c433
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.7698115e-05
Overall Rank: 6,481 | 56.45%
DOI: 10.14778/3172077.3172084

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Authors

1. Boyu Tian (University of Michigan)
2. Jiamin Huang (University of Michigan)
3. Barzan Mozafari (University of Michigan)
4. Grant Schoenebeck (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{tian_vldb18,
        title = {{Contention-Aware Lock Scheduling for Transactional Databases}},
        author = {Tian, Boyu and Huang, Jiamin and Mozafari, Barzan and Schoenebeck, Grant},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {5},
        pages = {648--661},
        doi = {10.14778/3172077.3172084},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3172077.3172084},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,881	Distributed Lock Management with RDMA: Decentralization without Starvation	2018	SIGMOD	7.9114212e-05
4,071	Beyond Macrobenchmarks: Microbenchmark-based Graph Database Evaluation	2019	VLDB	6.8182854e-05
7,005	Towards Optimal Transaction Scheduling	2024	VLDB	5.6218081e-05
8,591	Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data	2024	VLDB	5.3065663e-05
10,140	Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates	2021	VLDB	5.0723744e-05
10,230	Modeling Concurrency Control as a Learnable Function	2026	SIGMOD	5.0547568e-05
10,278	TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions	2025	VLDB	5.0461162e-05
11,143	TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,841	Robustness Against Read Committed: A Free Transactional Lunch	2022	PODS	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
78	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00036675568
235	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00023689995
1,763	Real-Time Databases	1991	VLDB	9.696111e-05
1,940	Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads	2013	SIGMOD	9.3298436e-05
2,337	Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems	2016	SIGMOD	8.6180776e-05
2,873	SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics	2017	CIDR	7.9190136e-05
2,974	The Performance of Concurrency Control Algorithms for Database Management Systems	1984	VLDB	7.7923516e-05
3,905	Deadlock Detection and Resolution in a CODASYL Based Data Management System	1976	SIGMOD	6.9304011e-05
4,078	DBSeer: Resource and Performance Prediction for Building a Next Generation Database Cloud	2013	CIDR	6.8154962e-05
4,913	A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.3548977e-05
5,538	Real-Time Transaction Scheduling: A Cost Conscious Approach	1993	SIGMOD	6.0894165e-05
9,192	DBSeer: Pain-free Database Administration through Workload Intelligence	2015	VLDB	5.2091836e-05

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