SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Internals Overview
Summary: In-Memory OLTP (project “Hekaton”) is a new database engine component, fully integrated into SQL Server. It is optimized for OLTP workloads accessing memory resident data. In-Memory OLTP allows OLTP workloads to achieve significant improvements in performance, and reduction in processing time. Tables can be declared as ‘memory optimized’ to enable In-Memory OLTP’s capabilities. Memory-optimized tables are fully transactional and can be accessed using Transact-SQL. Transact-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code for further performance improvements on memory-optimized tables. The engine is designed for high concurrency and blocking is minimal.
Authors: Kalen Delaney
Technical Reviewers: Kevin Liu, Sunil Agarwal, Jos de Bruijn, Kevin Farlee, Mike Zwilling, Craig Freedman, Mike Weiner, Cristian Diaconu, Pooja Harjani, Paul Larson, David Schwartz, Darmadi Komo
Published: March 2014
Applies to: SQL Server 2014
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