H-store: a high-performance, distributed main memory transaction processing system

Our previous work has shown that architectural and application shifts have resulted in modern OLTP databases increasingly falling short of optimal performance [10]. In particular, the availability of multiple-cores, the abundance of main memory, the lack of user stalls, and the dominant use of stored procedures are factors that portend a clean-slate redesign of RDBMSs. This previous work showed that such a redesign has the potential to outperform legacy OLTP databases by a significant factor. These results, however, were obtained using a bare-bones prototype that was developed just to demonstrate the potential of such a system. We have since set out to design a more complete execution platform, and to implement some of the ideas presented in the original paper. Our demonstration presented here provides insight on the development of a distributed main memory OLTP database and allows for the further study of the challenges inherent in this operating environment.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: PVLDB
• Authors: Robert Kallman, Hideaki Kimura, Jonathan Natkins, Andrew Pavlo, Alex Rasin, Stanley B. Zdonik, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, Yang Zhang, John Hugg, Daniel J. Abadi
• Keywords: Main Memory, Modern Oltp Databases, Oltp Database, PVLDB 2008