Paper: Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores

How will your OLTP database perform if it had to scale up to 1024 cores? Not very well according to this fascinating paper: Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores, where a few intrepid chaos monkeys report the results of their fiendish experiment. The conclusion: we need a completely redesigned DBMS architecture that is rebuilt from the ground up.

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