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 …

Storing a database (rows and indexes) entirely in non-volatile memory (NVM) potentially
enables both high performance and fast recovery. To fully exploit parallelism on modern …

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 …

Multi-core in-memory databases promise high-speed online transaction processing.
However, the performance of individual designs suffers when the workload characteristics …

Next generation high-performance RDMA-capable networks will require a fundamental
rethinking of the design and architecture of modern distributed DBMSs. These systems are …

This paper reports the deployment of computational storage drives in Alibaba Cloud, aiming
to enable cloud-native relational database cost-effectively support analytical workloads. With …

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 …

The ever increasing amount of data being handled in data centers causes an intrinsic
inefficiency: moving data around is expensive in terms of bandwidth, latency, and power …

Cloud databases have been widely accepted and deployed due to their unique advantages,
such as high elasticity, high availability, and low cost. Many new techniques, such as …

Large main memories and massively parallel processors have triggered not only a
resurgence of high-performance transaction processing systems optimized for large main …