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: 13393
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.4314245e-05
Overall Rank: 8,406 | 42.33%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611563

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hiroyuki Yamada (Scalar, Inc.)
2. Toshihiro Suzuki (Scalar, Inc.)
3. Yuji Ito (Scalar, Inc.)
4. Jun Nemoto (Scalar, Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yamada_vldb23,
        title = {{ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores}},
        author = {Yamada, Hiroyuki and Suzuki, Toshihiro and Ito, Yuji and Nemoto, Jun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3768--3780},
        doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611563},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611563},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,770	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,852	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,926	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
64	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038756588
73	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00037333356
182	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00026367971
208	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024968157
245	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023458287
271	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.00022703024
1,080	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00012257972
2,903	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.9761235e-05
3,313	Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions	2021	VLDB	7.5297116e-05
3,784	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	7.1268687e-05
8,111	Scalar DL: Scalable and Practical Byzantine Fault Detection for Transactional Database Systems	2022	VLDB	5.484341e-05

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