The FIDS Theorems: Tensions between Multinode and Multicore Performance in Transactional Systems (Abstract)
Naama Ben-David, Gal Sela, Adriana Szekeres · 2024
Traditionally, distributed and parallel transactional systems have been studied in isolation, as they targeted different applications and experienced different bottlenecks. However, modern fast networks have made the study of systems that are both distributed (i.e., employ multiple nodes) and parallel (i.e., employ multiple cores per node) necessary to truly make use of the available hardware. In this paper, we study the performance of these combined systems and show that there are inherent tradeoffs between a system's ability to have fast and robust distributed communication and its ability to scale to multiple cores.