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