Publications by Frederick Ryan Johnson

Eliminating unscalable communication in transaction processing

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis

Multicore hardware demands software parallelism. Transaction processing workloads typically exhibit high concurrency, and, thus, provide ample opportunities for parallel execution. Unfortunately, because of the characteristics of the application, transacti ...

Springer Verlag2014

Toward Scalable Transaction Processing -- Evolution of Shore-MT

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Pinar Tözün, Ippokratis Pandis

Designing scalable transaction processing systems on modern multicore hardware has been a challenge for almost a decade. The typical characteristics of transaction processing workloads lead to a high degree of unbounded communication on multicores for conv ...

VLDB Endowment2013

Scalable and Dynamically Balanced Shared-Everything OLTP with Physiological Partitioning

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Pinar Tözün, Ippokratis Pandis

Scaling the performance of shared-everything transaction processing systems to highly-parallel multicore hardware remains a challenge for database system designers. Recent proposals alleviate locking and logging bottlenecks in the system, leaving page latc ...

2013

Scalability of write-ahead logging on multicore and multisocket hardware

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

A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Danica Porobic, Ippokratis Pandis, Dimitrios Karampinas

Conventional OLTP systems assign each transaction to a worker thread and that thread accesses data, depending on what the transaction dictates. This thread-to-transaction work assignment policy leads to unpredictable accesses. The unpredictability forces e ...

2011

PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Pinar Tözün, Ippokratis Pandis

Scaling the performance of shared-everything on-line transaction processing to highly-parallel multicore hardware remains a great challenge for database system designers. Developments in OLTP technology remove locking and logging from being scalability bot ...

2011

Aether: A scalable approach to logging

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

The shift to multi-core 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 barriers serialize ...

2010

Data-Oriented Transaction Execution

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis

While hardware technology has undergone major advancements over the past decade, transaction processing systems have remained largely unchanged. The number of cores on a chip grows exponentially, following Moore's Law, allowing for an ever-increasing numbe ...

2010

Decoupling contention management from scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Radu Ioan Stoica, Frederick Ryan Johnson

Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts strongly the performance and scalability of these applications: spinning provides ...

2010

A New Look at the Roles of Spinning and Blocking

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

Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to protect internal data structures is a crucial factor in overall database performa ...

2009