Instant Recovery for Main-Memory Databases

Summary: Main contribution: a main-memory DB architecture that targets byte-addressable Storage Class Memory (SCM) and removes traditional log-based recovery by using persistent in-place data structures, eliminating the need for transaction rollbacks. Prototype SOFORT achieves instant recovery and exposes a tunable trade-off between query runtime and recovery time. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4b515ec95d8b5e70
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 7.7688331e-05
Overall Rank: 2,998 | 79.85%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ismail Oukid (SAP; Technical University of Dresden)
2. Wolfgang Lehner (Technical University of Dresden)
3. Thomas Kissinger (Technical University of Dresden)
4. Thomas Willhalm (Intel)
5. Peter Bumbulis (SAP)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{oukid_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Instant Recovery for Main-Memory Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Oukid, Ismail and Lehner, Wolfgang and Kissinger, Thomas and Willhalm, Thomas and Bumbulis, Peter},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
502	FPTree: A Hybrid SCM-DRAM Persistent and Concurrent B-Tree for Storage Class Memory	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017250534
542	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.0001665543
964	BzTree: A High-Performance Latch-free Range Index for Non-Volatile Memory	2018	VLDB	0.00012810196
1,282	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011210073
3,006	Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids	2018	VLDB	7.7609084e-05
3,467	Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases	2016	SIGMOD	7.2777606e-05
4,190	SAP HANA Adoption of Non-Volatile Memory	2017	VLDB	6.7456998e-05
4,440	Memory Management Techniques for Large-Scale Persistent-Main-Memory Systems	2017	VLDB	6.5995676e-05
4,848	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.3818116e-05
6,041	Page As You Go: Piecewise Columnar Access In SAP HANA	2016	SIGMOD	5.9063503e-05
7,567	Database Isolation By Scheduling	2021	VLDB	5.4949954e-05
7,945	Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases	2025	SIGMOD	5.4212704e-05
9,749	Data Structure Engineering For Byte-Addressable Non-Volatile Memory	2017	SIGMOD	5.1349531e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
70	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00037859131
170	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.0002705961
219	SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units	2009	VLDB	0.00024363532
614	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.0001556755
668	Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory	2011	CIDR	0.00014964806
857	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.00013427334

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