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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
0.00018126139
Overall Rank
447 | 97.01%
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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70 The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00037761637
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036267455
106 Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00033563032
111 DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go? 1999 VLDB 0.00032621499
157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028244257
172 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00027021768
262 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution 2010 VLDB 0.00022832269
302 Shoring Up Persistent Applications 1994 SIGMOD 0.00021600053
474 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017638418
1,028 Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging 2010 VLDB 0.00012390677
1,384 PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP 2011 VLDB 0.00010824715
1,437 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.0001064992
1,976 OLTP on Hardware Islands 2012 VLDB 9.2695591e-05
2,338 A Scalable Lock Manager for Multicores 2013 SIGMOD 8.5997363e-05
4,142 The bionic DBMS is coming, but what will it look like? 2013 CIDR 6.7684359e-05
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