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An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control

Summary: Apples-to-apples evaluation of six distributed concurrency-control protocols in Deneva exposes severe scalability limits and protocol-specific bottlenecks. Truly scalable distributed transactions require tighter coupling to network hardware, data modeling, or application semantics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11739
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
9.4705999e-05
Overall Rank
1,926 | 86.79%
DOI
10.14778/3055540.3055547

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BibTeX Citation

@article{harding_vldb17,
        title = {{An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control}},
        author = {Harding, Rachael and Van Aken, Dana and Pavlo, Andrew and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {5},
        pages = {553--564},
        doi = {10.14778/3055540.3055547},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3055540.3055547},
        year = {2017}
}

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68 The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00038446206
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607 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015800238
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