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NWR: Rethinking Thomas Write Rule for Omittable Write Operations
Sho Nakazono, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Hideyuki Kawashima
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Concurrency control protocols are the key to scaling current DBMS performances. They efficiently interleave read and write operations in transactions, but occasionally they restrict concurrency by using coordination such as exclusive lockings. Although exclusive lockings ensure the correctness of DBMS, it incurs serious performance penalties on multi-core environments. In particular, existing protocols generally suffer from emerging highly write contended workloads, since they use innumerable lockings for write operations. In this paper, we rethink the Thomas write rule (TWR), which allows the timestamp ordering (T/O) protocol to omit write operations without any lockings. We formalize the notion of omitting and decouple it from the T/O protocol implementation, in order to define a new rule named non-visible write rule (NWR). When the rules of NWR are satisfied, any protocol can in theory generate omittable write operations with preserving the correctness without any lockings. In the experiments, we implement three NWR-extended protocols: Silo+NWR, TicToc+NWR, and MVTO+NWR. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and the low-overhead property of the extended protocols. We confirm that NWR-extended protocols achieve more than 11x faster than the originals in the best case of highly write contended YCSB-A and comparable performance with the originals in the other workloads.
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