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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
10880
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00012082141
Overall Rank
1,418 | 90.15%
DOI
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23 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00083899338
54 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.0006582344
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0004532783
136 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042409816
298 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00028556426
715 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00017636409
1,311 Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach 2011 CIDR 0.00012650881
2,008 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8120677e-05
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