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ICDE
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
Transactional workloads are a hallmark of modern OLTP and Web applications, ranging from electronic commerce and banking to online shopping. Often, the database at the core of the...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper identifies node affinity as an important property for scalable general-purpose locks. Nonuniform communication architectures (NUCAs), for example CCNUMAs built from a f...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Database partitioning is a technique for improving the performance of distributed OLTP databases, since “single partition” transactions that access data on one partition do no...
HPCC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Compared with lock-based synchronization techniques, Software Transactional Memory (STM) can significantly improve the programmability of multithreaded applications. Existing res...