NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems

Summary: NVRAM-aware logging uses NVRAM only for the log, not the full database, to balance cost and performance. Per-transaction logging removes log-buffer bottlenecks, enabling concurrency, with 1.4–2.7x gains over all-NVRAM, 1.2–6.7x over PMFS, and ~20% over distributed logging. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he2488b668e8904e3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.5478851e-05
Overall Rank: 2,379 | 84.01%
DOI: 10.14778/2735496.2735502

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Authors

1. Jian Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Moinuddin K. Qureshi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb15,
        title = {{NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems}},
        author = {Huang, Jian and Schwan, Karsten and Qureshi, Moinuddin K.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {4},
        pages = {389--400},
        doi = {10.14778/2735496.2735502},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735496.2735502},
        year = {2015}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
786	Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions	2017	SIGMOD	0.00013988699
1,282	Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011210073
1,437	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.0001065408
3,496	How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System	2017	SIGMOD	7.2557397e-05
3,581	Understanding the Idiosyncrasies of Real Persistent Memory	2021	VLDB	7.1914474e-05
4,848	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.3818116e-05
6,163	Taurus: Lightweight Parallel Logging for In-Memory Database Management Systems	2021	VLDB	5.8643447e-05
6,891	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.6543315e-05
7,005	Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory	2021	VLDB	5.6236238e-05
7,056	SQLite Optimization with Phase Change Memory for Mobile Applications	2015	VLDB	5.6114131e-05
7,567	Database Isolation By Scheduling	2021	VLDB	5.4949954e-05
8,341	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	5.3517356e-05
8,430	DASH: Database Shadowing for Mobile DBMS	2019	VLDB	5.3350162e-05
11,190	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,066	Rethinking Message Brokers on RDMA and NVM	2020	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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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	0.00081992507
570	A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications	2008	SIGMOD	0.00016224945
614	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.0001556755
857	Storage Management in the NVRAM Era	2014	VLDB	0.00013427334
1,026	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012423267
1,125	FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance	2009	SIGMOD	0.00011926907
1,297	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011129439
3,932	Controlled Lock Violation	2013	SIGMOD	6.9182359e-05
5,452	Early Hash Join: A Configurable Algorithm for the Efficient and Early Production of Join Results	2005	VLDB	6.1242445e-05

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