Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

Amazon Aurora is a relational database service for OLTP workloads offered as part of
Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this paper, we describe the architecture of Aurora and the …

Silo is a new in-memory database that achieves excellent performance and scalability on
modern multicore machines. Silo was designed from the ground up to use system memory …

Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in data-intensive applications
and services in the cloud. Data is created on a variety of edge sources, eg, devices …

Alibaba runs the largest e-commerce platform in the world serving more than 600 million
customers, with a GMV (gross merchandise value) exceeding USD 768 billion in FY2018 …

In 2013, Microsoft Research proposed the Bw-Tree (humorously termed the" Buzz Word
Tree''), a lock-free index that provides high throughput for transactional database workloads …

Disk-based database systems use buffer managers in order to transparently manage data
sets larger than main memory. This traditional approach is effective at minimizing the …

The performance of transactional database systems is critically dependent on the efficient
synchronization of in-memory data structures. The traditional approach, fine-grained locking …

Data structures are critical in any data-driven scenario, but they are notoriously hard to
design due to a massive design space and the dependence of performance on workload …

The Deuteronomy architecture provides a clean separation of transaction functionality
(performed in a transaction component, or TC) from data management functionality …