A ton of effort seems to be spent on making things run in parallel, but that introduces quite a bit of overhead too, so how well does a sequential baseline actu

A ton of effort seems to be spent on making things run in parallel, but that introduces quite a bit of overhead too, so how well does a sequential baseline actually perform? By sequential baseline I mean a single thread that just executes all incoming transactions one by one in sequence. You should check out the H-Store research project[1] and its commercial successor VoltDB. They’re basically a study in how much you can win with a federation of single-threaded database systems. [1] https://hstore.cs.brown.edu/papers/hstore-endofera.pdf https://hstore.cs.brown.edu/papers/hstore-endofera.pdf