The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale

Summary: NAM-DB: scalable distributed transactions over RDMA, with a placement redesign that removes co-partitioning bottlenecks. TPC-C shows scale-out to 6.5M new-orders on 56 nodes, refuting the myth that distributed transactions can't scale. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11563
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00010429773
Overall Rank: 1,819 | 87.35%
DOI: -

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3,592	Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids	2018	VLDB	6.9406675e-05
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4,283	Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity	2019	SIGMOD	6.2917189e-05
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4,450	A1: A Distributed In-Memory Graph Database	2020	SIGMOD	6.1741566e-05
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4,544	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1000636e-05
4,981	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	5.7872963e-05
5,042	Design Guidelines for Correct, Efficient, and Scalable Synchronization using One-Sided RDMA	2023	SIGMOD	5.7414429e-05
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5,512	Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores	2019	VLDB	5.4665318e-05
6,223	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1496398e-05
6,317	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.1140356e-05
6,422	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.0681154e-05
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7,077	Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions	2022	SIGMOD	4.8425226e-05
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8,806	Online Schema Evolution is (Almost) Free for Snapshot Databases	2023	VLDB	4.446517e-05
9,471	Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	4.3341665e-05
9,606	SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing	2022	VLDB	4.3177432e-05
9,634	HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine	2022	SIGMOD	4.3122147e-05
10,025	Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
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10,650	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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10,782	From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB's Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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137	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042342967
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679	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00018215154
720	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017615431
763	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00017025851
959	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00015025361
1,206	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013281657
1,217	Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control	2015	VLDB	0.0001323177
1,361	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012379741
1,439	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00011964135
1,457	High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy	2015	CIDR	0.00011897016
1,497	Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011685781
1,692	Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores	2017	VLDB	0.00010901611
1,832	Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems	2013	VLDB	0.00010380187
1,957	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	9.9598319e-05
2,056	PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	9.6645763e-05
2,273	Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions	2014	SIGMOD	9.1329997e-05
2,307	On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	VLDB	9.0599752e-05
2,983	Supporting Table Partitioning By Reference in Oracle	2008	SIGMOD	7.7796493e-05
3,821	Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	6.7281515e-05

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