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Different types of workloads are subjecting the database management systems to different kinds of scalability challenges. For transaction processing systems where many threads access small portions of the data and enter numerous critical sections to ensure ACID properties, the main challenge that limits scalability is the access latency to the shared data items in other cores’ caches.