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: 11564
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00010452333
Overall Rank: 1,813 | 87.41%
DOI: -

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3,588	Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids	2018	VLDB	6.9389605e-05
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4,268	Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity	2019	SIGMOD	6.2976914e-05
4,348	Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System	2018	VLDB	6.2587037e-05
4,449	DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks	2021	SIGMOD	6.1740574e-05
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4,500	GaccO - A GPU-accelerated OLTP DBMS	2022	SIGMOD	6.1326735e-05
4,523	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.1102901e-05
4,979	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	5.7830279e-05
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5,059	G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture	2022	VLDB	5.7207311e-05
5,482	Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores	2019	VLDB	5.4830927e-05
5,498	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	5.4738497e-05
6,220	Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.1446966e-05
6,297	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	5.1192861e-05
6,418	DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks	2019	CIDR	5.063249e-05
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7,043	SepHash: A Write-Optimized Hash Index On Disaggregated Memory via Separate Segment Structure	2024	VLDB	4.8480192e-05
7,071	Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions	2022	SIGMOD	4.8378766e-05
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8,805	Online Schema Evolution is (Almost) Free for Snapshot Databases	2023	VLDB	4.4422549e-05
9,473	Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware	2025	SIGMOD	4.3300131e-05
9,579	HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine	2022	SIGMOD	4.3191678e-05
9,606	SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing	2022	VLDB	4.3136057e-05
10,025	Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,551	Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,658	Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
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11,076	Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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136	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042409816
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679	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00018211621
715	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017636409
756	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00017079523
961	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00015028453
1,196	Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA	2015	SIGMOD	0.00013378379
1,217	Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control	2015	VLDB	0.00013228757
1,351	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012439556
1,439	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00011956201
1,447	High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy	2015	CIDR	0.0001192999
1,474	Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011781099
1,637	Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores	2017	VLDB	0.00011058532
1,827	Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems	2013	VLDB	0.00010389522
1,956	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	9.9626473e-05
2,062	PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	9.654149e-05
2,276	Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions	2014	SIGMOD	9.1320955e-05
2,309	On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	VLDB	9.0630462e-05
2,985	Supporting Table Partitioning By Reference in Oracle	2008	SIGMOD	7.7758625e-05
3,825	Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	6.7225803e-05

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