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- research-article
Better database cost/performance via batched I/O on programmable SSD
- Jaeyoung Do
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
, - Ivan Luiz Picoli
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
, - Philippe Bonnet
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Volume 30, Issue 3•May 2021, pp 403-424 • https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-020-00648-zAbstractData should be placed at the most cost- and performance-effective tier in the storage hierarchy. While performance and cost decrease with distance from the CPU, the cost/performance trade-off depends on how efficiently data can be moved across ...
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- Jaeyoung Do
- research-articlePublic AccessPublished By ACMPublished By ACM
ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index
- Jialin Ding
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
, - Umar Farooq Minhas
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Jia Yu
Arizona State University & Microsoft Research, Tempe, AZ, USA
, - Chi Wang
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Jaeyoung Do
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Yinan Li
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Hantian Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology & Microsoft Research, Atlanta, GA, USA
, - Badrish Chandramouli
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Johannes Gehrke
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Donald Kossmann
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Tim Kraska
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
SIGMOD '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data•June 2020, pp 969-984• https://doi.org/10.1145/3318464.3389711Recent work on "learned indexes" has changed the way we look at the decades-old field of DBMS indexing. The key idea is that indexes can be thought of as "models" that predict the position of a key in a dataset. Indexes can, thus, be learned. The ...
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Supplementary Material3318464.3389711.mp4
- Jialin Ding
- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Improving CPU I/O Performance via SSD Controller FTL Support for Batched Writes
- Jaeyoung Do
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Ivan Luiz Picoli
ITU Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
DaMoN'19: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware•July 2019, Article No.: 2, pp 1-8• https://doi.org/10.1145/3329785.3329925Exploiting a storage hierarchy is critical to cost-effective data management. One can achieve great performance when working solely on main memory data. But this comes at a high cost. Systems that use secondary storage as the "home" for data have much ...
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- Jaeyoung Do
- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Cost/performance in modern data stores: how data caching systems succeed
- David Lomet
Microsoft Research
DAMON '18: Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware•June 2018, Article No.: 9, pp 1-10• https://doi.org/10.1145/3211922.3211927Data in traditional "caching" data systems resides on secondary storage, and is read into main memory only when operated on. This limits system performance. Main memory data stores with data always in main memory are much faster. But this performance ...
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The Future of Data Management
- David B. Lomet
Microsoft Research
Fifty years from today, we will live in a data-immersive world, doing things we have never done before.
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- David B. Lomet
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Multi-version range concurrency control in Deuteronomy
- Justin Levandoski
Microsoft Research
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research
, - Sudipta Sengupta
Microsoft Research
, - Ryan Stutsman
Microsoft Research
, - Rui Wang
Microsoft Research
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 8, Issue 13•September 2015, pp 2146-2157 • https://doi.org/10.14778/2831360.2831368The Deuteronomy transactional key value store executes millions of serializable transactions/second by exploiting multi-version timestamp order concurrency control. However, it has not supported range operations, only individual record operations (e.g., ...
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- Justin Levandoski
- research-article
Schema-agnostic indexing with Azure DocumentDB
- Dharma Shukla
Microsoft Corporation
, - Shireesh Thota
Microsoft Corporation
, - Karthik Raman
Microsoft Corporation
, - Madhan Gajendran
Microsoft Corporation
, - Ankur Shah
Microsoft Corporation
, - Sergii Ziuzin
Microsoft Corporation
, - Krishnan Sundaram
Microsoft Corporation
, - Miguel Gonzalez Guajardo
Microsoft Corporation
, - Anna Wawrzyniak
Microsoft Corporation
, - Samer Boshra
Microsoft Corporation
, - Renato Ferreira
Microsoft Corporation
, - Mohamed Nassar
Microsoft Corporation
, - Michael Koltachev
Microsoft Corporation
, - Ji Huang
Microsoft Corporation
, - Sudipta Sengupta
Microsoft Research
, - Justin Levandoski
Microsoft Research
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 8, Issue 12•August 2015, pp 1668-1679 • https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824065Azure DocumentDB is Microsoft's multi-tenant distributed database service for managing JSON documents at Internet scale. DocumentDB is now generally available to Azure developers. In this paper, we describe the DocumentDB indexing subsystem. DocumentDB ...
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- Dharma Shukla
- demonstrationPublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Indexing on modern hardware: hekaton and beyond
- Justin Levandoski
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
, - David Lomet
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Sudipta Sengupta
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Adrian Birka
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
, - Cristian Diaconu
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
SIGMOD '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data•June 2014, pp 717-720• https://doi.org/10.1145/2588555.2594536Recent OLTP support exploits new techniques, running on modern hardware, to achieve unprecedented performance compared with prior approaches. In SQL Server, the Hekaton main-memory database engine embodies this new OLTP support. Hekaton uses the Bw-tree ...
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- Justin Levandoski
- article
Microsoft SQL server's integrated database approach for modern applications and hardware
- David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 6, Issue 11•August 2013, pp 1178-1179 • https://doi.org/10.14778/2536222.2536248Recently, there has been much renewed interest in re-architecting database systems to exploit new hardware. While some efforts have suggested that one needs specialized engines ("one size does not fit all"), the approach pursued by Microsoft's SQL ...
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- David Lomet
- article
LLAMA: a cache/storage subsystem for modern hardware
- Justin Levandoski
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
, - Sudipta Sengupta
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 6, Issue 10•August 2013, pp 877-888 • https://doi.org/10.14778/2536206.2536215LLAMA is a subsystem designed for new hardware environments that supports an API for page-oriented access methods, providing both cache and storage management. Caching (CL) and storage (SL) layers use a common mapping table that separates a page's ...
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- Justin Levandoski
- Article
Multi-version Concurrency via Timestamp Range Conflict Management
ICDE '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering•April 2012, pp 714-725• https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2012.10A database supporting multiple versions of records may use the versions to support queries of the past or to increase concurrency by enabling reads and writes to be concurrent. We introduce a new concurrency control approach that enables all SQL ...
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- research-articlePublished By ACMPublished By ACM
Chimera: data sharing flexibility, shared nothing simplicity
- Umar Farooq Minhas
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
, - Chandramohan A. Thekkath
Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA
IDEAS '11: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on International Database Engineering & Applications•September 2011, pp 152-161• https://doi.org/10.1145/2076623.2076642The current database market is fairly evenly split between shared nothing and data sharing systems. While shared nothing systems are easier to build and scale, data sharing systems have advantages in load balancing. In this paper we explore adding data ...
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- Umar Farooq Minhas
- articlefree
Log-based middleware server recovery with transaction support
- Rui Wang
Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, USA 98052
, - Betty Salzberg
College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA 02115
, - David Lomet
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, USA 98052
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Volume 20, Issue 3•June 2011, pp 347-370 • https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-010-0199-1Providing enterprises with reliable and available Web-based application programs is a challenge. Applications are traditionally spread over multiple nodes, from user (client), to middle tier servers, to back end transaction systems, e.g. databases. It ...
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- Rui Wang
- Article
Adapting microsoft SQL server for cloud computing
- Philip A. Bernstein
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Istvan Cseri
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Nishant Dani
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Nigel Ellis
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Ajay Kalhan
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Gopal Kakivaya
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - David B. Lomet
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Ramesh Manne
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Lev Novik
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
, - Tomas Talius
Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399, U.S.A.
ICDE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on Data Engineering•April 2011, pp 1255-1263• https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2011.5767935Cloud SQL Server is a relational database system designed to scale-out to cloud computing workloads. It uses Microsoft SQL Server as its core. To scale out, it uses a partitioned database on a shared-nothing system architecture. Transactions are ...
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- Philip A. Bernstein
- research-article
Implementing performance competitive logical recovery
- David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
, - Kostas Tzoumas
Aalborg University, Denmark
, - Michael Zwilling
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 4, Issue 7•April 2011, pp 430-439 • https://doi.org/10.14778/1988776.1988779New hardware platforms, e.g. cloud, multi-core, etc., have led to a reconsideration of database system architecture. Our Deuteronomy project separates transactional functionality from data management functionality, enabling a flexible response to ...
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- David Lomet
- chapter
Transactions: from local atomicity to atomicity in the cloud
- David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Atomicity is a fundamental concept in computer science. Initially it was defined as an abstraction to be used in a local context. But over time, its use has expanded or scaled as application programmers have come to rely on it. This reliance is based on ...
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- research-article
Locking key ranges with unbundled transaction services
- David Lomet
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
, - Mohamed F. Mokbel
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 2, Issue 1•August 2009, pp 265-276 • https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687658To adapt database technology to new environments like cloud platforms or multi-core hardware, or to try anew to provide an extensible database platform, it is useful to separate transaction services from data management elements that need close physical ...
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Improving Transaction-Time DBMS Performance and Functionality
ICDE '09: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering•March 2009, pp 581-591• https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2009.56Immortal DB is a transaction time database system that is built into a commercial database system rather than being layered on top. This enables it to have performance that is very close to the performance of an unversioned current time database system. ...
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- Article
Transaction Support for Log-Based Middleware Server Recovery
ICDE '09: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering•March 2009, pp 353-356• https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2009.45We have developed log-based recovery for middleware servers that access back-end transaction systems (DBMSs). Transactional consistency is provided between in-memory state stored in middleware servers and persistent state stored in transaction systems. ...
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- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
- Q. Why can’t I find my most recent publication in my ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner