A Comprehensive Evaluation of RDMA-enabled Concurrency Control Protocols

On-line transaction processing (OLTP) applications require efficient distributed transaction execution. When a transaction accesses multiple records in remote machines, network performance is a crucial factor affecting transaction latency and throughput. Due to its high bandwidth and very low latency, RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) has achieved much higher performance for distributed transactions than traditional TCP-based systems. RDMA provides primitives for both two-sided and one-sided communication. Although recent works have intensively studied the benefits of RDMA in distributed transaction systems, they either focus on primitive-level comparisons of two communication models (one-sided vs. two-sided) or only study one concurrency control protocol. A comprehensive understanding of the implication of RDMA for various concurrency control protocols is an open problem. In this paper, we build RCC, the first unified and comprehensive RDMA-enabled distributed transaction processing framework supporting six concurrency control protocols using either two-sided or one-sided primitives. We intensively optimize the performance of each protocol without bias, using known techniques such as co-routines, outstanding requests, and doorbell batching. Based on RCC, we conduct the first and most comprehensive (to the best of our knowledge) study of the six representative distributed concurrency control protocols on two clusters with different RDMA network capabilities.