P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP

Summary: P4DB enables OLTP processing in-network by running a transaction engine on a P4 switch; hot tuples reside and execute there. Demonstrates up to 8x speedup over conventional DBMS, showing in-network processing as a viable accelerator for distributed OLTP. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc9a024f318dfe2bf
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.3676622e-05
Overall Rank: 8,179 | 45.18%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3517825

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Matthias Jasny (Technical University of Darmstadt)
2. Lasse Thostrup (Technical University of Darmstadt)
3. Tobias Ziegler (Technical University of Darmstadt)
4. Carsten Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jasny_sigmod22,
        title = {{P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP}},
        author = {Jasny, Matthias and Thostrup, Lasse and Ziegler, Tobias and Binnig, Carsten},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517825},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517825},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,930	Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice	2023	VLDB	5.4078897e-05
7,957	GraphINC: Graph Pattern Mining at Network Speed	2023	SIGMOD	5.4019044e-05
8,781	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	5.2647498e-05
9,962	SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing	2022	VLDB	5.0910746e-05
11,494	Analyzing Near-Network Hardware Acceleration with Co-Processing on DPUs	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,959	DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action	2022	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040489652
80	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036267455
122	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00030701814
236	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00023639649
447	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00018126139
928	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00013012601
1,349	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010940559
1,370	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010875068
1,452	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00010588622
1,840	On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	VLDB	9.5171028e-05
1,885	An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	9.4209865e-05
2,002	Track Join: Distributed Joins with Minimal Network Traffic	2014	SIGMOD	9.189062e-05
2,189	Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance	2016	VLDB	8.8866479e-05
3,173	Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks	2019	VLDB	7.5552708e-05
3,258	Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	7.4730157e-05
3,729	Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System	2018	VLDB	7.0449074e-05
3,748	Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection	2020	VLDB	7.0350137e-05
3,905	Analyzing the Impact of System Architecture on the Scalability of OLTP Engines for High-Contention Workloads	2018	VLDB	6.9146292e-05
4,192	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	6.7342449e-05
5,023	The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing	2019	CIDR	6.298792e-05
5,337	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.1613626e-05
5,972	Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch Pruning	2020	SIGMOD	5.9114227e-05

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