Debugging Transactions and Tracking their Provenance with Reenactment
Summary: A non-invasive postmortem debugger for transactions, exposing internal state and provenance despite unavailable inputs and concurrency. Declarative reenactment replays executions over their historical database snapshots and interactions, enabling what-if code/data changes using existing temporal and audit logs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Xing Niu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 2. Bahareh Sadat Arab (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 3. Seokki Lee (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 4. Dieter Gawlick (Oracle)
- 5. Vasudha Krishnaswamy (Oracle)
- 6. Su Feng (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 7. Zhen Hua Liu (Oracle)
- 8. Xun Zou (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 9. Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{niu_vldb17,
title = {{Debugging Transactions and Tracking their Provenance with Reenactment}},
author = {Niu, Xing and Arab, Bahareh Sadat and Lee, Seokki and Gawlick, Dieter and Krishnaswamy, Vasudha and Feng, Su and Liu, Zhen Hua and Zou, Xun and Glavic, Boris},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137793},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137793},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,931 | Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it | 2020 | CIDR | 6.0369708e-05 |
| 8,145 | You Say ‘What’, I Hear ‘Where’ and ‘Why’ — (Mis-)Interpreting SQL to Derive Fine-Grained Provenance | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4790624e-05 |
| 11,454 | R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058720861 |
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