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Mar 7, 2016 · Databases

How SQL Server Hekaton Supercharges OLTP with In‑Memory, Latch‑Free Architecture

This article examines the performance bottlenecks of traditional relational databases, explains how SQL Server 2014's In‑Memory OLTP (Hekaton) uses latch‑free Bw‑tree structures, optimistic timestamp‑based concurrency, and native compilation to achieve orders‑of‑magnitude speedups, and discusses its practical limits and real‑world case studies.