Minghui Liu·Apr 20, 2020Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQLThis paper documents how the authors implemented a serializable snapshot isolation in PostgreSQL, and out performed strict-2PL on some…
Minghui Liu·Apr 14, 2020OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found ThereThis paper from 2008 provides an instruction-level breakdown of the performance impact of each major component of a OLTP database, running…
Minghui Liu·Apr 13, 2020Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand CoresThis paper from 2014 argued that DBMSs were not ready to take advantage of the on-chip parallelism offered by many-core machines. As the…
Minghui Liu·Apr 1, 2020March 2020 SummaryAccording to my time management app, this month I woke up around 9:40 everyday, and stayed focused for an average of 4 hours and 20…
Minghui Liu·Feb 24, 2020How to read a paper by Peter CarrToday I watched a video by Prof. Peter Carr of University of Minnesota on how to read research papers. Here are the notes I took.
Minghui Liu·Feb 22, 2020Hello World!I have been subscribing to and reading a lot of blogs, most of them are acedemic blogs that post research ideas and paper reading notes…
