A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems
Jiamin Moran Huang, Barzan Mozafari, Grant Schoenebeck, Thomas F. Wenisch · 2017
While much of the research on transaction processing has focused on improving overall performance in terms of throughput and mean latency, surprisingly less attention has been given to performance predictability: how often individual transactions exhibit execution latency far from the mean. Performance predictability is increasingly important when transactions lie on the critical path of latency-sensitive applications, enterprise software, or interactive web services.