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Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores

Summary: Evaluates seven OLTP concurrency-control schemes in a simulated 1,024-core main-memory DBMS. All fail to scale, exposing algorithm-specific but implementation-independent bottlenecks and motivating hardware-coupled DBMS redesigns rather than incremental fixes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h2ca9b4dca890a435
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.0001817002
Overall Rank
444 | 97.02%
DOI
10.14778/2735508.2735509
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BibTeX Citation

@article{yu_vldb15,
        title = {{Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores}},
        author = {Yu, Xiangyao and Bezerra, George and Pavlo, Andrew and Devadas, Srinivas and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {3},
        pages = {209--220},
        doi = {10.14778/2735508.2735509},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735508.2735509},
        year = {2015}
}

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