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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
11751
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00011090483
Overall Rank
1,345 | 90.78%
DOI
10.14778/3055330.3055331

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zamanian_vldb17,
        title = {{The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale}},
        author = {Zamanian, Erfan and Binnig, Carsten and Harris, Tim and Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {6},
        pages = {685--696},
        doi = {10.14778/3055330.3055331},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3055330.3055331},
        year = {2017}
}

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1,482 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010642079
1,584 PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers 2021 SIGMOD 0.0001028934
2,212 Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory 2022 SIGMOD 8.9411432e-05
3,088 Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids 2018 VLDB 7.7694381e-05
3,243 Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks 2019 VLDB 7.6051655e-05
3,624 Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity 2019 SIGMOD 7.2461483e-05
3,661 Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System 2018 VLDB 7.2167755e-05
3,761 ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 7.1450129e-05
3,868 DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks 2021 SIGMOD 7.0614899e-05
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3,924 A1: A Distributed In-Memory Graph Database 2020 SIGMOD 7.015626e-05
4,317 Design Guidelines for Correct, Efficient, and Scalable Synchronization using One-Sided RDMA 2023 SIGMOD 6.7646416e-05
4,519 G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture 2022 VLDB 6.6472999e-05
4,626 In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging 2021 VLDB 6.5985783e-05
4,829 Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores 2019 VLDB 6.4882686e-05
5,109 The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 6.3615847e-05
5,587 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1596139e-05
5,725 Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks 2020 SIGMOD 6.108451e-05
6,174 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 5.9510389e-05
6,405 DPI: The Data Processing Interface for Modern Networks 2019 CIDR 5.8855242e-05
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6,770 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.7783709e-05
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7,101 CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA 2021 SIGMOD 5.7032817e-05
7,753 Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice 2023 VLDB 5.5520108e-05
7,814 Rethinking Stateful Stream Processing with RDMA 2022 SIGMOD 5.5389009e-05
7,913 Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks 2023 VLDB 5.5181056e-05
7,998 P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP 2022 SIGMOD 5.5093728e-05
8,357 Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.4446759e-05
8,381 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 5.4377136e-05
8,596 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.4051515e-05
8,832 Online Schema Evolution is (Almost) Free for Snapshot Databases 2023 VLDB 5.36029e-05
9,605 Nezha: An Efficient Distributed Graph Processing System on Heterogeneous Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 5.247855e-05
9,667 HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine 2022 SIGMOD 5.2401605e-05
9,740 SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing 2022 VLDB 5.227679e-05
10,321 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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10,902 Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
19 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00058720861
83 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036185259
126 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030779127
471 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0001793564
537 FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM 2015 SIGMOD 0.00016931517
662 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015176173
755 Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control 2015 VLDB 0.00014326008
766 The Case for Determinism in Database Systems 2010 VLDB 0.0001420984
892 Rack-Scale In-Memory Join Processing using RDMA 2015 SIGMOD 0.00013376761
976 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012864533
1,089 High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy 2015 CIDR 0.00012242396
1,117 Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012108907
1,141 Mostly-Optimistic Concurrency Control for Highly Contended Dynamic Workloads on a Thousand Cores 2017 VLDB 0.0001200422
1,420 Lightweight Locking for Main Memory Database Systems 2013 VLDB 0.00010829638
1,423 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010822279
1,637 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001015538
1,831 On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 VLDB 9.6635729e-05
1,961 Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions 2014 SIGMOD 9.4000927e-05
1,969 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.3749819e-05
2,666 Supporting Table Partitioning By Reference in Oracle 2008 SIGMOD 8.2764713e-05
3,200 Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 7.642132e-05
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