SIG-txn reading group, Nov + Dev 2020

The TiKV transactions SIG is starting up its reading group. We’ll try to read and discuss a paper each month. If you’re interested in research in distributed transactions, come join in! We’ll start by reading ‘Industrial-Strength OLTP Using Main Memory and Many Cores’, by Avni et al. at Huawei Research Centre. It was published in the proceedings of VLDB 2020 and you can download it from them. The paper describes a new storage engine for GaussDB (an HTAP (OLTP + OLAP) database from Huawei), that includes a transaction system, and a JIT compiler for SQL processing.