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Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads

Summary: Trireme unifies four OLTP system architectures and concurrency-control protocols to isolate their scalability effects under high contention. Experiments expose architecture–protocol interactions and assess partitioning, delegation, and data-oriented execution against shared-everything designs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h36c2960b7619e72e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
6.9146292e-05
Overall Rank
3,905 | 73.83%
DOI
10.14778/3149193.3149194

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BibTeX Citation

@article{appuswamy_vldb18,
        title = {{Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads}},
        author = {Appuswamy, Raja and Anadiotis, Angelos C. and Porobic, Danica and Iman, Mustafa K. and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {2},
        pages = {121--134},
        doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149194},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149194},
        year = {2018}
}

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606 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask 2018 VLDB 0.00015609823
1,320 Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering 2019 VLDB 0.00011021933
3,045 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 7.7044181e-05
3,868 GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS 2022 SIGMOD 6.9436655e-05
4,339 Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling 2020 SIGMOD 6.641183e-05
5,337 Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks 2020 SIGMOD 6.1613626e-05
6,543 Contention and Space Management in B-Trees 2021 CIDR 5.733215e-05
6,940 Industrial-Strength OLTP Using Main Memory and Many Cores 2020 VLDB 5.6229186e-05
7,897 An Analysis of Concurrency Control Protocols for In-Memory Databases with CCBench 2020 VLDB 5.4146341e-05
8,179 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 5.3676622e-05
8,370 A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers 2020 VLDB 5.3287859e-05
10,625 Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,202 TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads 2025 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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Showing 28 of 28 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
35 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00047937476
54 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040489652
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036267455
122 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030701814
447 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018126139
474 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017638418
542 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00016620527
797 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001388084
807 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013734149
863 An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 0.00013368866
1,028 Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging 2010 VLDB 0.00012390677
1,158 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.00011744154
1,299 Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance 2009 VLDB 0.00011104379
1,302 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011092608
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
2,221 Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention 2016 SIGMOD 8.807697e-05
2,338 A Scalable Lock Manager for Multicores 2013 SIGMOD 8.5997363e-05
2,447 A Case for Staged Database Systems 2003 CIDR 8.4378829e-05
2,455 The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis 2015 SIGMOD 8.4213386e-05
3,264 Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution 2016 SIGMOD 7.4667818e-05
3,869 The Case For Heterogeneous HTAP 2017 CIDR 6.9434054e-05
4,081 Transaction Healing: Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control on Multicores 2016 SIGMOD 6.801179e-05
4,154 Latch-Free Data Structures for DBMS: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation 2013 SIGMOD 6.7616022e-05
4,294 Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency 2014 VLDB 6.6660284e-05
6,298 A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools 2011 SIGMOD 5.8026646e-05
8,548 Fiber-based Architecture for NFV Cloud Databases 2017 VLDB 5.3030969e-05
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