GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism

Summary: GriDB restores sharded blockchain DB scalability by moving heavy cross‑shard exchanges off‑chain: a few randomly chosen delegates jointly produce succinct proofs that on‑chain consensus merely verifies, tolerating Byzantine faults. New authenticated data structures provide completeness/correctness/freshness/availability for verifiable relational cross‑shard queries and an off‑chain live load‑balancer enables scalable queries and updates. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13028
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.7762276e-05
Overall Rank: 7,286 | 49.32%
DOI: 10.14778/3587136.3587143

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
717	Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding	2019	SIGMOD	0.00017639814
892	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00015559876
1,092	E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00014135961
1,207	BlockchainDB - A Shared Database on Blockchains	2019	VLDB	0.00013277133
1,515	vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011591553
2,948	Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	7.8341023e-05
3,149	Fine-Grained, Secure and Efficient Data Provenance on Blockchain Systems	2019	VLDB	7.4741595e-05
3,500	FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database	2020	SIGMOD	7.0373486e-05
5,801	Hybrid Blockchain Database Systems: Design and Performance	2022	VLDB	5.3211417e-05
5,940	ByShard: Sharding in a Byzantine Environment	2021	VLDB	5.2639965e-05
6,098	Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion	2021	SIGMOD	5.2112094e-05

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