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)
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Authors
- 1. Yihe Huang (Harvard University)
- 2. William Qian (Harvard University)
- 3. Eddie Kohler (Harvard University)
- 4. Barbara Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University)
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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