ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores

Summary: ScalarDB: a database-agnostic universal transaction manager that provides strict-serializable distributed transactions spanning heterogeneous polystores without relying on underlying DBs' transactional features. Built on a portable DB abstraction with performance optimizations and productization mechanisms, it achieves practical performance and near-linear scalability for cross-database transactions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13205
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.4998278e-05
Overall Rank: 8,489 | 40.95%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611563

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10,493	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,591	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,677	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-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	0.00083894938
45	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00071800944
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
165	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00039502525
349	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00026440605
390	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024607299
488	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.000220409
1,227	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00013170695
3,052	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.6507181e-05
3,431	Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions	2021	VLDB	7.1008172e-05
4,627	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	6.0390708e-05
8,141	Scalar DL: Scalable and Practical Byzantine Fault Detection for Transactional Database Systems	2022	VLDB	4.5768015e-05

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