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 …

Hekaton is a new database engine optimized for memory resident data and OLTP
workloads. Hekaton is fully integrated into SQL Server; it is not a separate system. To take …

Transactions with strong consistency and high availability simplify building and reasoning
about distributed systems. However, previous implementations performed poorly. This …

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 …

Within the last few years, a countless number of blockchain systems have emerged on the
market, each one claiming to revolutionize the way of distributed transaction processing in …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a widely employed concurrency control
mechanism, as it allows for execution modes where readers never block writers. However …

Computer architectures are moving towards an era dominated by many-core machines with
dozens or even hundreds of cores on a single chip. This unprecedented level of on-chip …

Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) is currently the most popular transaction
management scheme in modern database management systems (DBMSs). Although MVCC …