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Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores

Summary: MOCC: mostly-optimistic CC for highly contended workloads on thousands of cores. It uses a cancellable reader-writer spinlock and a serializable protocol enabling acquire/release/reacquire in any order without heavy coordination, avoiding clobbered reads and delivering 8x–23x gains over OCC/pessimistic (17M TPS TPC-C, 110M+ TPS YCSB no-conflict). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8cc4c49745a5fb42
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.0001176315
Overall Rank
1,161 | 92.20%
DOI
10.14778/3015274.3015276
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BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb17,
        title = {{Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores}},
        author = {Wang, Tianzheng and Kimura, Hideaki},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {2},
        pages = {49--60},
        doi = {10.14778/3015274.3015276},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3015274.3015276},
        year = {2017}
}

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