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: 13206
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.4955142e-05
Overall Rank: 8,486 | 41.03%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611563

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10,599	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,685	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	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
45	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00071732655
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052844656
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040580118
166	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00039467886
348	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00026473778
363	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00025750338
486	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.00022039625
1,228	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00013158624
3,055	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.6478224e-05
3,436	Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions	2021	VLDB	7.0939849e-05
4,625	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	6.0343309e-05
8,143	Scalar DL: Scalable and Practical Byzantine Fault Detection for Transactional Database Systems	2022	VLDB	4.5724134e-05

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