The Serial Safety Net: Efficient Concurrency Control on Modern Hardware
Murat (noreply@blogger.com)
This paper proposes a way to get serializability without completely destroying your system's performance. I quite like the paper, as it flips the script on how we think about database isolation levels. The Idea In modern hardware setups (where we have massive multi-core processors, huge main memory, and I/O is no longer the main bottleneck), strict concurrency control schemes like Two-Phase Locking (2PL) choke the system due to contention on centralized structures. To keep things fast, most syst