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Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores
Summary: RDMA-based baseline for 2PL/2PC with a distributed lock table, standard locking modes, and strict serializability. On TPC-C, scales to thousands of cores and hundreds of machines, reaching ~21M tps (9.5M New Orders/s), demonstrating locking-based CC can scale with RDMA.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 11955
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2019
- Pagerank
- 5.4830927e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,482 | 61.91%
- DOI
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10.14778/3358701.3358702
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