ScaleCache: Scalable and Production-grade Buffer Management for Disk-based Database Systems

Summary: ScaleCache replaces centralized pinning and translation with per-group reference counting and a copy-on-write lock. Its SIMD-friendly hash table delivers near-linear many-core scaling and higher B-link/vector-index throughput, with production deployment in GaussDB. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h6277f430a94175b1
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.1855858e-05
Overall Rank: 9,362 | 37.08%
DOI: 10.14778/3750601.3750628
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Authors

1. Mingyu Liu (Huawei Company)
2. Junbin Kang (Huawei Company)
3. Kai Wang (Huawei Company)
4. Lu Zhang (Huawei Company)
5. Haibo Chen (Huawei Company)
6. Xiuchang Li (Huawei Company)
7. Tianhong Ding (Huawei Company)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb25,
        title = {{ScaleCache: Scalable and Production-grade Buffer Management for Disk-based Database Systems}},
        author = {Liu, Mingyu and Kang, Junbin and Wang, Kai and Zhang, Lu and Chen, Haibo and Li, Xiuchang and Ding, Tianhong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {12},
        pages = {5073--5085},
        doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750628},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750628},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,350	Replace or Augment: Rethinking the Role of Learned Indexes in Relational Databases	2027	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
10,955	Why We Created Yet Another Memory Framework: Understanding MGA’s Role in Next-Gen Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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	0.00047996489
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.00028316479
235	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00023689995
575	Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth	2012	SIGMOD	0.00016134406
729	Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture	2013	VLDB	0.00014417679
1,524	Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database	2014	VLDB	0.0001036095
1,716	Cache-Conscious Concurrency Control of Main-Memory Indexes on Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems	2001	VLDB	9.8041694e-05
2,291	In-Memory Performance for Big Data	2015	VLDB	8.6855592e-05
4,094	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.8094958e-05
7,768	Adaptive Factorization Using Linear-Chained Hash Tables	2025	CIDR	5.4548741e-05
7,808	Analyzing Vectorized Hash Tables Across CPU Architectures	2023	VLDB	5.448023e-05

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