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Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations

Summary: Taxonomy of Highly Available Transactions (HATs); analyzes which ACID guarantees survive partitions and latency. Shows two to three orders of magnitude gains over WAN; outlines semantic tradeoffs, unifying weak isolation, replica consistency, and HA literature. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10879
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00012079793
Overall Rank
1,419 | 90.13%
DOI
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23 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00083894938
53 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00066144767
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00045316749
137 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042342967
298 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00028591413
720 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00017615431
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