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The PCL Theorem: Transactions cannot be Parallel, Consistent, and Live

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The PCL Theorem. Transactions cannot be Parallel, Consistent and Live

Rachid Guerraoui, Victor Bushkov, Panagiota Fatourou

We show that it is impossible to design a transactional memory system which ensures parallelism, i.e. transactions do not need to synchronize unless they access the same application objects, while ensuring very little consistency, i.e. a consistency condit ...

2014

Consistency Models in Distributed Systems with Physical Clocks

Jiaqing Du

Most existing distributed systems use logical clocks to order events in the implementation of various consistency models. Although logical clocks are straightforward to implement and maintain, they may affect the scalability, availability, and latency of t ...

EPFL2014

Inferring Scalability from Program Pseudocode

Mihai Letia

Recent trends have led hardware manufacturers to place multiple processing cores on a single chip, making parallel programming the intended way of taking advantage of the increased processing power. However, bringing concurrency to average programmers is c ...

EPFL2014

A paradox of eventual linearizability in shared memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert

This paper compares, for the rst time, the computational power of linearizable objects with that of eventually linearizable ones. We present the following paradox. We show that, unsurprisingly, no set of eventually linearizable objects can (1) implement an ...

ACM Press2014

Clock-SI: Snapshot Isolation for Partitioned Data Stores Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Jiaqing Du

Clock-SI is a fully distributed protocol that implements snapshot isolation (SI) for partitioned data stores. It derives snapshot and commit timestamps from loosely synchronized clocks, rather than from a centralized timestamp authority as used in current ...

2013

Scalability of write-ahead logging on multicore and multisocket hardware

Anastasia Ailamaki, Radu Ioan Stoica, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis, Ippokratis Pandis

The shift to multi-core and multi-socket hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommodate simultaneous requests, a multitude of synchronization ba ...

2012

Speculative Linearizability

Rachid Guerraoui, Viktor Kuncak, Giuliano Losa

Linearizability is a key design methodology for reasoning about implementations of concurrent abstract data types in both shared memory and message passing systems. It provides the illusion that operations execute sequentially and fault-free, despite the a ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

On the Performance of Software Transactional Memory

Aleksandar Dragojevic

The recent proliferation of multi-core processors has moved concurrent programming into mainstream by forcing increasingly more programmers to write parallel code. Using traditional concurrency techniques, such as locking, is notoriously difficult and has ...

EPFL2012