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Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions

Summary: Revisits OCC under contention, showing its apparent collapse often stems from non-CC implementation choices. Commit-time updates and timestamp splitting substantially boost both OCC and MVCC, yielding 3.6× and 3.4× TPC-C gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
hfd89b78e1389cd74
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
7.6920087e-05
Overall Rank
3,062 | 79.42%
DOI
10.14778/3377369.3377373

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BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb20,
        title = {{Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions}},
        author = {Huang, Yihe and Qian, William and Kohler, Eddie and Liskov, Barbara and Shrira, Liuba},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {5},
        pages = {629--642},
        doi = {10.14778/3377369.3377373},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3377369.3377373},
        year = {2020}
}

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35 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00048001919
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036364464
179 The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later 2012 VLDB 0.00026611886
235 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00023697028
268 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.00022673125
445 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018176701
542 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001665543
636 ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015360975
756 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00014210991
786 Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions 2017 SIGMOD 0.00013988699
872 An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control 2017 VLDB 0.00013342029
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1,334 TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010995094
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