Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine
Summary: SQL Server’s Hekaton is a memory-resident OLTP engine, fully integrated with T-SQL and memory-optimized durable tables. High concurrency comes from latch-free data structures and optimistic MVCC; mem-optimized procedures can be compiled to native code and access both mem-optimized and regular tables. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Cristian Diaconu (Microsoft)
- 2. Craig Freedman (Microsoft)
- 3. Erik Ismert (Microsoft)
- 4. Per-Åke Larson (Microsoft)
- 5. Pravin Mittal (Microsoft)
- 6. Ryan Stonecipher (Microsoft)
- 7. Nitin Verma (Microsoft)
- 8. Mike Zwilling (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{diaconu_sigmod13,
title = {{Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine}},
author = {Diaconu, Cristian and Freedman, Craig and Ismert, Erik and Larson, Per-Åke and Mittal, Pravin and Stonecipher, Ryan and Verma, Nitin and Zwilling, Mike},
series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2463676.2463710},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2463710},
year = {2013}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00056835296 |
| 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 |
| 170 | High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00027054001 |
| 261 | Data-Oriented Transaction Execution | 2010 | VLDB | 0.0002286084 |
| 431 | HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00018400856 |
| 2,814 | HyPer-sonic Combined Transaction AND Query Processing | 2011 | VLDB | 7.9767718e-05 |
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