« Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17, 2012 | Main | MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) and Familiar (SQL) » In MemSQL Architecture we learned one of the core strategies MemSQL uses to achieve their need for speed is lock-free skip lists. Skip lists are used to efficiently handle range queries. Making the skip-lists lock-free helps eliminate contention