Taking Omid to the Clouds: Fast, Scalable Transactions for Real-Time Cloud Analytics
Summary: Re-engineers Omid’s HBase transaction layer for Phoenix’s multi-tenant SQL “translytics,” prioritizing latency and scalability. A redesigned protocol is 4–5× faster at light load and up to 10× faster under load, with a near-native fast path for single-key transactions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ohad Shacham (Yahoo)
- 2. Yonatan Gottesman (Yahoo)
- 3. Aran Bergman (Technion)
- 4. Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo)
- 5. Eshcar Hillel (Yahoo)
- 6. Idit Keidar (Technion; Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@article{shacham_vldb18,
title = {{Taking Omid to the Clouds: Fast, Scalable Transactions for Real-Time Cloud Analytics}},
author = {Shacham, Ohad and Gottesman, Yonatan and Bergman, Aran and Bortnikov, Edward and Hillel, Eshcar and Keidar, Idit},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {12},
pages = {1795--1808},
doi = {10.14778/3229863.3229868},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3229868},
year = {2018}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,469 | FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.5354086e-05 |
| 7,701 | Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle | 2024 | VLDB | 5.5650215e-05 |
| 10,839 | K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,889 | Concurrency Control as a Service | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,926 | Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable | 2025 | 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 |
| 57 | Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00040139242 |
| 105 | Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00033877899 |
| 144 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00029554682 |
| 607 | F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00015800238 |
| 1,324 | Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011149314 |
| 5,065 | Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores | 2012 | VLDB | 6.3775656e-05 |
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