The recent availability of Intel Haswell processors marks the transition of hardware
transactional memory from research toys to mainstream reality. DBX is an in-memory …

The Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC) method has been commonly used for in-memory
databases to ensure transaction serializability---a transaction will be aborted if its read set …

DrTM is a fast in-memory transaction processing system that exploits advanced hardware
features such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and hardware transactional memory …

Advances in technology and computing hardware are enabling scientists from all areas of
science to produce massive amounts of data using large-scale simulations or observational …

Transactional memory is a promising way for implementing efficient synchronization
mechanisms for multicore processors. Intel's introduction of hardware transactional memory …

The commercial availability of Intel's Haswell processor suggests that hardware
transactional memory (HTM), a technique inspired by database transactions, is likely to be …

Previous work [1] has claimed that the best performing implementation of in-memory hash
joins is based on (radix-) partitioning of the build-side input. Indeed, despite the overhead of …

The design and implementation of data management systems have been significantly
affected by application demands and hardware advancements. On one hand, with the …

With the recent move to multi-core architectures it has become important to create the means
to exploit the performance made available to us by these architectures. Unfortunately …

Decision makers today want to analyze constantly evolving datasets of unprecedented
volume and complexity in real time. This poses a significant challenge for the underlying …