SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing

Summary: SwitchTx decentralizes in-network transaction coordination across a per-transaction tree of programmable switches, expressing locking, validation, and replication as gather-and-scatter operations. Semantic message reordering plus congestion/admission control avoids Eris’s central-switch bottleneck and improves throughput, latency, and lock time. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12960
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.227679e-05
Overall Rank: 9,740 | 33.18%
DOI: 10.14778/3551793.3551838

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Authors

1. Junru Li (Tsinghua University)
2. Youyou Lu (Tsinghua University)
3. Yiming Zhang (Xiamen University)
4. Qing Wang (Tsinghua University)
5. Zhuo Cheng (Huawei)
6. Keji Huang (Huawei)
7. Jiwu Shu (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb22,
        title = {{SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing}},
        author = {Li, Junru and Lu, Youyou and Zhang, Yiming and Wang, Qing and Cheng, Zhuo and Huang, Keji and Shu, Jiwu},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2881--2894},
        doi = {10.14778/3551793.3551838},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551838},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,481	Performant Synchronization in Geo-Distributed Databases	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
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
473	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00017900942
760	Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions	2017	SIGMOD	0.0001425909
887	E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00013403455
1,334	Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering	2019	VLDB	0.00011123567
1,345	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00011090483
1,700	Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database	2020	VLDB	9.9726588e-05
3,013	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	7.8518631e-05
4,218	Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency	2014	VLDB	6.8261118e-05
4,626	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	6.5985783e-05
5,725	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.108451e-05
7,998	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	5.5093728e-05
9,607	Sharing Opportunities for OLTP Workloads in Different Isolation Levels	2020	VLDB	5.2473912e-05

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