PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba
Summary: PolarDB-IMCI is a cloud-native HTAP DB from Alibaba focusing on transparency, OLAP competitiveness, minimal OLTP perturbation, data freshness, and elastic scaling. Up to 149x 100GB TPC-H speedup, OLTP perturbation <5%, scale-out in tens of seconds. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jianying Wang (Alibaba)
- 2. Tongliang Li (Alibaba)
- 3. Haoze Song (Alibaba)
- 4. Xinjun Yang (Alibaba)
- 5. Wenchao Zhou (Alibaba)
- 6. Feifei Li (Alibaba)
- 7. Baoyue Yan (Alibaba)
- 8. Qianqian Wu (Alibaba)
- 9. Yukun Liang (Alibaba)
- 10. Chengjun Ying (Alibaba; Zhejiang University)
- 11. Yujie Wang (Alibaba)
- 12. Baokai Chen (Alibaba)
- 13. Chang Cai (Alibaba)
- 14. Yubin Ruan (Alibaba)
- 15. Xiaoyi Weng (Alibaba)
- 16. Shibin Chen (Alibaba)
- 17. Liang Yin (Alibaba)
- 18. Chengzhong Yang (Alibaba)
- 19. Xin Cai (Alibaba)
- 20. Hongyan Xing (Alibaba)
- 21. Nanlong Yu (Alibaba)
- 22. Xiaofei Chen (Alibaba)
- 23. Dapeng Huang (Alibaba)
- 24. Jianling Sun (Alibaba; Zhejiang University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wang_sigmod23,
title = {{PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba}},
author = {Wang, Jianying and Li, Tongliang and Song, Haoze and Yang, Xinjun and Zhou, Wenchao and Li, Feifei and Yan, Baoyue and Wu, Qianqian and Liang, Yukun and Ying, Chengjun and Wang, Yujie and Chen, Baokai and Cai, Chang and Ruan, Yubin and Weng, Xiaoyi and Chen, Shibin and Yin, Liang and Yang, Chengzhong and Cai, Xin and Xing, Hongyan and Yu, Nanlong and Chen, Xiaofei and Huang, Dapeng and Sun, Jianling},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589785},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589785},
year = {2023}
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