A Queue-oriented Transaction Processing Paradigm

Abstract: Transaction processing has been an active area of research for several decades. A fundamental characteristic of classical transaction processing protocols is non-determinism, which causes them to suffer from performance issues on modern computing environments such as main-memory databases using many-core, and multi-socket CPUs and distributed environments. Recent proposals of deterministic transaction processing techniques have shown great potential in addressing these performance issues. In this position paper, I argue for a queue-oriented transaction processing paradigm that leads to better design and implementation of deterministic transaction processing protocols. I support my approach with extensive experimental evaluations and demonstrate significant performance gains.