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Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture

Summary: Anti-caching flips the storage hierarchy: main memory is primary, cold data moved to disk transactionally. Prototype in high-performance OLTP DBMS; compares to disk-based and memory-cache setups; reports up to 9x throughput gains for highly skewed workloads with data ~8× memory. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hc76fe650200341eb
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00014417679
Overall Rank
729 | 95.11%
DOI
10.14778/2556549.2556572

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BibTeX Citation

@article{debrabant_vldb13,
        title = {{Anti-Caching: A New Approach to Database Management System Architecture}},
        author = {DeBrabant, Justin and Pavlo, Andrew and Tu, Stephen and Stonebraker, Michael and Zdonik, Stan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {14},
        pages = {1942--1953},
        doi = {10.14778/2556549.2556572},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2556549.2556572},
        year = {2013}
}

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542 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00016654017
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864 Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013388481
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960 Reducing the Storage Overhead of Main-Memory OLTP Databases with Hybrid Indexes 2016 SIGMOD 0.0001283613
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1,524 Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database 2014 VLDB 0.0001036095
1,764 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 9.6959345e-05
2,202 Mega-KV: A Case for GPUs to Maximize the Throughput of In-Memory Key-Value Stores 2015 VLDB 8.8707587e-05
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5,221 LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs 2024 VLDB 6.2207378e-05
5,405 FILM: a Fully Learned Index for Larger-than-Memory Databases 2023 VLDB 6.1435108e-05
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6,297 Database Kernels: Seamless Integration of Database Systems and Fast Storage via CXL 2024 CIDR 5.8185585e-05
6,300 Mainlining Databases: Supporting Fast Transactional Workloads on Universal Columnar Data File Formats 2021 VLDB 5.8174924e-05
6,383 When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database 2023 SIGMOD 5.8045104e-05
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6,486 Bf-Tree: A Modern Read-Write-Optimized Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index 2024 VLDB 5.766886e-05
6,495 FineLine: Log-structured Transactional Storage and Recovery 2018 VLDB 5.7640595e-05
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6,776 Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices 2016 VLDB 5.6834455e-05
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8,075 Two is Better Than One: The Case for 2-Tree for Skewed Data Sets 2023 CIDR 5.3921263e-05
8,081 Amazon MemoryDB: A Fast and Durable Memory-First Cloud Database 2024 SIGMOD 5.3917406e-05
8,375 A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers 2020 VLDB 5.3423179e-05
8,419 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.3328741e-05
8,570 Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 5.3113492e-05
9,102 DimmStore: Memory Power Optimization for Database Systems 2019 VLDB 5.2258409e-05
9,362 ScaleCache: Scalable and Production-grade Buffer Management for Disk-based Database Systems 2025 VLDB 5.1855858e-05
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10,680 Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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11,598 Agile-Ant: Self-managing Distributed Cache Management for Cost Optimization of Big Data Applications 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7 Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems 1984 SIGMOD 0.00081971778
34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049129967
35 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00047996489
55 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040454492
70 The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00037851432
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036354352
157 OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There 2008 SIGMOD 0.00028316479
473 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017684278
820 Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager 1994 VLDB 0.00013658052
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5,193 DataBlitz: A High Performance Main-Memory Storage Manager 1998 VLDB 6.2330524e-05
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