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Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System
Summary: Sundial: in-memory distributed optimistic CC using runtime logical leases to assign commit timestamps and reduce aborts. It caches remote data with coherence; unifies CC and caching; shows up to 57% gains and up to 4.6x on skew.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 11619
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2018
- Pagerank
- 6.2638519e-05
- Overall Rank
- 4,351 | 69.74%
- DOI
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10.14778/3231751.3231763
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