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Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks
Summary: Chiller introduces contention-centric data partitioning and execution for modern RDMA networks to minimize data contention on both local and distributed transactions. By prioritizing contention minimization over merely reducing cross-partition transactions, it beats traditional schemes by up to 2×.
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Paper ID
h389df6a190f4bbb7
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.1842459e-05
Overall Rank
5,314 | 64.28%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3389724
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BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zamanian_sigmod20,
title = {{Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks}},
author = {Zamanian, Erfan and Shun, Julian and Binnig, Carsten and Kraska, Tim},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389724},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389724},
year = {2020}
}
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