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Database Performance Research Resources

From theoretical foundations to practice

Theoretical Resources

KuaFu: Closing the parallelism gap in database replication
C. Hong et al., 2013 Intermediate
4.0
A practical implementation for improving parallelism in database replication systems.
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Design principles for scaling multi-core OLTP under high contention
K. Ren et al., 2016 Intermediate
5.0
A theoretical study on scaling OLTP systems under high contention in multi-core environments, establishing foundational principles.
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Improving High Contention OLTP Performance via Transaction Scheduling
Guna Prasaad et al., 2018 Intermediate
4.0
Practical techniques for improving OLTP performance under high contention using transaction scheduling.
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Practical Resources

A study of database performance sensitivity to experiment settings
Y. Wang et al., 2022 Beginner
5.0
This paper investigates how database performance varies with different experimental settings, providing theoretical insights into performance measurement.
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OceanBase Did Better than Any Other Database in the TPC-C Benchmark
Alipay Technology, 2019 Beginner
5.0
Practical implementation details of how OceanBase achieved superior performance in the TPC-C benchmark test.
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Experimental evaluation of NUMA effects on database management systems
T. Kiefer et al., 2013 Intermediate
5.0
Practical evaluation of NUMA architecture effects on database management systems.
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