Ermia

Large main memories and massively parallel processors have triggered not only a resurgence of high-performance transaction processing systems optimized for large main-memory and massively parallel processors, but also an increasing demand for processing heterogeneous workloads that include read-mostly transactions. Many modern transaction processing systems adopt a lightweight optimistic concurrency control (OCC) scheme to leverage its low overhead in low contention workloads. However, we observe that the lightweight OCC is not suitable for heterogeneous workloads, causing significant starvation of read-mostly transactions and overall performance degradation.