Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"

Summary: Compares coroutine-based and other techniques for hiding cache-miss latency in pointer-intensive hash tables, searches, Masstree, and Bw-tree. Detailed experiments expose when coroutine scheduling improves throughput and its practical tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: he6fb9319c50869d7
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 7.9825078e-05
Overall Rank: 2,809 | 81.12%
DOI: 10.14778/3236187.3236216

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christopher Jonathan (University of Minnesota)
2. Umar Farooq Minhas (Microsoft)
3. James Hunter (Microsoft)
4. Justin Levandoski (Microsoft)
5. Gor Nishanov (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jonathan_vldb18,
        title = {{Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"}},
        author = {Jonathan, Christopher and Minhas, Umar Farooq and Hunter, James and Levandoski, Justin and Nishanov, Gor},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1702--1714},
        doi = {10.14778/3236187.3236216},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3236187.3236216},
        year = {2018}
}

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3,405	CoroGraph: Bridging Cache Efficiency and Work Efficiency for Graph Algorithm Execution	2024	VLDB	7.3286366e-05
3,709	CoroBase: Coroutine-Oriented Main-Memory Database Engine	2021	VLDB	7.0791362e-05
4,243	The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines	2024	VLDB	6.7069789e-05
4,890	Can Learned Models Replace Hash Functions?	2023	VLDB	6.3682031e-05
5,337	MxTasks: How to Make Efficient Synchronization and Prefetching Easy	2021	SIGMOD	6.1744712e-05
6,091	ThunderRW: An In-Memory Graph Random Walk Engine	2021	VLDB	5.8898055e-05
8,050	Micro-architectural Analysis of OLAP: Limitations and Opportunities	2020	VLDB	5.3993433e-05
8,380	Interleaved Multi-Vectorizing	2020	VLDB	5.3429493e-05
8,403	The Case for Learned In-Memory Joins	2023	VLDB	5.3389852e-05
8,746	CXL Memory Performance for In-Memory Data Processing	2025	VLDB	5.287784e-05
8,948	Tao: Improving Resource Utilization while Guaranteeing SLO in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2024	SIGMOD	5.252939e-05
9,685	GastCoCo: Graph Storage and Coroutine-Based Prefetch Co-Design for Dynamic Graph Processing	2024	VLDB	5.1421905e-05
9,727	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	5.1349531e-05
10,866	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,357	No Cap, This Memory Slaps: Breaking Through the Memory Wall of Transactional Database Systems with Processing-in-Memory	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,998	Approaching DRAM performance by using microsecond-latency flash memory for small-sized random read accesses: a new access method and its graph applications	2021	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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
27	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.0005158963
35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00048001919
69	Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037950385
110	DBMSs On A Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?	1999	VLDB	0.00032700879
282	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00022264207
964	BzTree: A High-Performance Latch-free Range Index for Non-Volatile Memory	2018	VLDB	0.00012810196
2,673	Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining	2016	VLDB	8.1482775e-05
2,925	Interleaving with Coroutines: A Practical Approach for Robust Index Joins	2018	VLDB	7.8482706e-05
3,954	SAP HANA: The Evolution from a Modern Main-Memory Data Platform to an Enterprise Application Platform	2013	VLDB	6.9026723e-05

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