Efficient Black-box Checking of Snapshot Isolation in Databases
Summary: PolySI: a black-box checker for snapshot isolation that characterizes SI via generalized polygraphs (sound and complete) and compiles them to a compact SMT encoding with domain-specific pruning. Reproduces 2,477 known anomalies, finds new SI violations in three cloud DBs with human-readable counterexamples, outperforms prior black-box checkers and scales to large workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kaile Huang
- 2. Si Liu
- 3. Zhenge Chen
- 4. Hengfeng Wei
- 5. David Basin
- 6. Haixiang Li
- 7. Anqun Pan
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,684 | TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System | 2024 | VLDB | 4.6754482e-05 |
| 10,036 | Testing Graph Databases with Synthesized Queries | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,311 | Fast Verification of Strong Database Isolation | 2026 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,558 | VerIso: Verifiable Isolation Guarantees for Database Transactions | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,611 | Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,991 | Finding Logic Bugs in Spatial Database Engines via Affine Equivalent Inputs | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,108 | IsoVista: Black-box Checking Database Isolation Guarantees | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00083899338 |
| 591 | Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00019545141 |
| 1,228 | Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations | 2021 | VLDB | 0.00013158624 |
| 1,418 | Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00012082141 |
| 1,985 | ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications | 2017 | SIGMOD | 9.8619045e-05 |
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