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Scalable and Robust Snapshot Isolation for High-Performance Storage Engines
Summary: Shows MVCC snapshot isolation collapses under long-running readers and that existing out-of-memory commit protocols fail to scale on modern multicore storage engines. Proposes three multicore-scalable remedies: a low-communication, write-set-free commit enabling fine-grained GC; a Graveyard Index to hide deleted tuples; and adaptive version storage to accelerate GC and scans.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Paper ID
h8539c79624f4e9bc
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
5.5522008e-05
Overall Rank
7,273 | 51.25%
DOI
10.14778/3583140.3583157
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BibTeX Citation
@article{alhomssi_vldb23,
title = {{Scalable and Robust Snapshot Isolation for High-Performance Storage Engines}},
author = {Alhomssi, Adnan and Leis, Viktor},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {6},
pages = {1426--1438},
doi = {10.14778/3583140.3583157},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3583140.3583157},
year = {2023}
}
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