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+	pdflatex paper
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+@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21,
+  author       = {Jingyu Zhou and
+                  Meng Xu and
+                  Alexander Shraer and
+                  Bala Namasivayam and
+                  Alex Miller and
+                  Evan Tschannen and
+                  Steve Atherton and
+                  Andrew J. Beamon and
+                  Rusty Sears and
+                  John Leach and
+                  Dave Rosenthal and
+                  Xin Dong and
+                  Will Wilson and
+                  Ben Collins and
+                  David Scherer and
+                  Alec Grieser and
+                  Young Liu and
+                  Alvin Moore and
+                  Bhaskar Muppana and
+                  Xiaoge Su and
+                  Vishesh Yadav},
+  editor       = {Guoliang Li and
+                  Zhanhuai Li and
+                  Stratos Idreos and
+                  Divesh Srivastava},
+  title        = {FoundationDB: {A} Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store},
+  booktitle    = {{SIGMOD} '21: International Conference on Management of Data, Virtual
+                  Event, China, June 20-25, 2021},
+  pages        = {2653--2666},
+  publisher    = {{ACM}},
+  year         = {2021},
+  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3448016.3457559},
+  doi          = {10.1145/3448016.3457559},
+  timestamp    = {Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:43:39 +0100},
+  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21.bib},
+  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
+}
+
+@article{10.1145/78973.78977,
+author = {Pugh, William},
+title = {Skip lists: a probabilistic alternative to balanced trees},
+year = {1990},
+issue_date = {June 1990},
+publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
+address = {New York, NY, USA},
+volume = {33},
+number = {6},
+issn = {0001-0782},
+url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/78973.78977},
+doi = {10.1145/78973.78977},
+abstract = {Skip lists are data structures that use probabilistic balancing rather than strictly enforced balancing. As a result, the algorithms for insertion and deletion in skip lists are much simpler and significantly faster than equivalent algorithms for balanced trees.},
+journal = {Commun. ACM},
+month = {jun},
+pages = {668–676},
+numpages = {9},
+keywords = {data structures, searching, trees}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icde/LeisK013,
+  author       = {Viktor Leis and
+                  Alfons Kemper and
+                  Thomas Neumann},
+  editor       = {Christian S. Jensen and
+                  Christopher M. Jermaine and
+                  Xiaofang Zhou},
+  title        = {The adaptive radix tree: ARTful indexing for main-memory databases},
+  booktitle    = {29th {IEEE} International Conference on Data Engineering, {ICDE} 2013,
+                  Brisbane, Australia, April 8-12, 2013},
+  pages        = {38--49},
+  publisher    = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
+  year         = {2013},
+  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2013.6544812},
+  doi          = {10.1109/ICDE.2013.6544812},
+  timestamp    = {Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:01 +0100},
+  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icde/LeisK013.bib},
+  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
+}
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+\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
+
+\title{ARTful conflict checking for FoundationDB}
+\author{Andrew Noyes}
+\date{}
+
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\usepackage{biblatex}
+\bibliography{bibliography}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\maketitle
+
+\section{Abstract}
+
+FoundationDB \cite{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21} provides serializability using a specialized data structure called \textit{lastCommit}.
+This data structure maps key ranges (sets of keys denoted by either a singleton key or a half-open interval) to a ``commit version'' represented as a 64-bit integer \footnote{See Algorithm 1 referenced in \cite{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21}}.
+FoundationDB implements \textit{lastCommit} as a version-augmented probabilistic SkipList \cite{10.1145/78973.78977}.
+In this paper, we propose an alternative implementation of \textit{lastCommit} as a version-augmented Adaptive Radix Tree \cite{DBLP:conf/icde/LeisK013}, and evaluate its performance.
+
+\printbibliography
+
+\end{document}
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