Sherman: A write-optimized distributed b+ tree index on disaggregated memory

Q Wang, Y Lu, J Shu - Proceedings of the 2022 international conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Memory disaggregation architecture physically separates CPU and memory into
independent components, which are connected via high-speed RDMA networks, greatly …

{AlNiCo}:{SmartNIC-accelerated} contention-aware request scheduling for transaction processing

J Li, Y Lu, Q Wang, J Lin, Z Yang, J Shu - 2022 USENIX Annual …, 2022 - usenix.org
High-performance transaction processing needs to schedule numerous requests from the
network. However, such request scheduling comes with costs of complex information …

PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads

X Yang, Y Zhang, H Chen, C Sun, F Li… - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A classic design of cloud-native databases adopts an architecture that consists of one
read/write (RW) node and one or more read-only (RO) nodes. In such a design, the …

Motor: Enabling {Multi-Versioning} for Distributed Transactions on Disaggregated Memory

M Zhang, Y Hua, Z Yang - 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating …, 2024 - usenix.org
In modern datacenters, memory disaggregation unpacks monolithic servers to build network-
connected distributed compute and memory pools to improve resource utilization and …

Citron: Distributed Range Lock Management with One-sided {RDMA}

J Gao, Y Lu, M Xie, Q Wang, J Shu - 21st USENIX Conference on File …, 2023 - usenix.org
Range lock enables concurrent accesses to disjoint parts of a shared storage. However,
existing range lock managers rely on centralized CPU resources to process lock requests …

Scythe: A Low-latency RDMA-enabled Distributed Transaction System for Disaggregated Memory

K Lu, S Zhao, H Shan, Q Wei, G Li, J Wan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Disaggregated memory separates compute and memory resources into independent pools
connected by RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) networks, which can improve memory …

MorphDAG: A Workload-Aware Elastic DAG-Based Blockchain

S Zhang, J Xiao, E Wu, F Cheng, B Li… - … on Knowledge and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based blockchain represents a paradigm shift from
conventional blockchains, which has the potential to drastically improve throughput …

Localized Validation Accelerates Distributed Transactions on Disaggregated Persistent Memory

M Zhang, Y Hua, P Zuo, L Liu - ACM Transactions on Storage, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Persistent memory (PM) disaggregation significantly improves the resource utilization and
failure isolation to build a scalable and cost-effective remote memory pool in modern data …