Traditionally, the interface between a programming language and a database has either
been through a set of relatively low-level subroutine calls, or it has required some form of …

Today's databases and key-value stores commonly keep all their data in main memory. A
single server can have over 100 GB of memory, and a cluster of such servers can have 10s …

When separately written programs are composed so that they may cooperate, they may
instead destructively interfere in unanticipated ways. These hazards limit the scale and …

Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for
unexpected interactions between concurrent threads. Much previous work has focused on …

Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for
unexpected and nondeterministic interactions between threads. Previous work addressed …

Abstract Persistent Application Systems (PASs) are of increasing social and economic
importance. They have the potential to be long-lived, concurrently accessed, and consist of …

Pointer swizzling3 is the conversion of database objects between an external form (object
identifiers) and an internal form (direct memory pointers). Swizzling is used in some object …

Most applications manipulate persistent data, yet traditional systems decouple data
manipulation from persistence in a two-level storage model. Programming languages and …

Byte-addressable, non-volatile memory (NVM) is emerging as a revolutionary memory
technology that provides persistency, near-DRAM performance, and scalable capacity. To …

For ten years researchers have been attempting to construct programming language
systems that support orthogonal persistence above conventional operating systems. This …