Spectrum: Speedy and Strictly-Deterministic Smart Contract Transactions for Blockchain Ledgers

Summary: Spectrum enforces consensus-established serial order (strict determinism) for EVM smart contracts with runtime-determined accesses via speculative deterministic concurrency control. Key optimizations—operation-level rollback and predictive scheduling—reduce mis-speculations and aborts, yielding 1.4–4.1× throughput wins under contention. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13667
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,247 | 22.84%
DOI: 10.14778/3675034.3675045

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Authors

1. Zhihao Chen (East China Normal University)
2. Tianji Yang (East China Normal University)
3. Yixiao Zheng (East China Normal University)
4. Zhao Zhang (East China Normal University)
5. Cheqing Jin (East China Normal University)
6. Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chen_vldb24,
        title = {{Spectrum: Speedy and Strictly-Deterministic Smart Contract Transactions for Blockchain Ledgers}},
        author = {Chen, Zhihao and Yang, Tianji and Zheng, Yixiao and Zhang, Zhao and Jin, Cheqing and Zhou, Aoying},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2541--2554},
        doi = {10.14778/3675034.3675045},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3675034.3675045},
        year = {2024}
}

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10,462	Hyra: Scalable Byzantine-Resilient State Storage Engine with Hierarchical Erasure-Coding	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
271	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	0.00022703024
755	Rethinking serializable multiversion concurrency control	2015	VLDB	0.00014326008
766	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.0001420984
1,020	Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric	2019	SIGMOD	0.00012616838
1,063	High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility	2017	VLDB	0.00012343623
1,120	BlockchainDB - A Shared Database on Blockchains	2019	VLDB	0.00012096593
1,545	Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database	2019	VLDB	0.00010408717
1,700	Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database	2020	VLDB	9.9726588e-05
2,098	A Transactional Perspective on Execute-order-validate Blockchains	2020	SIGMOD	9.1706238e-05
2,234	Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention	2016	SIGMOD	8.8937932e-05
4,339	NeuChain: A Fast Permissioned Blockchain System with Deterministic Ordering	2022	VLDB	6.7548559e-05
5,172	FireLedger: A High Throughput Blockchain Consensus Protocol	2020	VLDB	6.3343367e-05
6,476	When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database	2023	SIGMOD	5.8686486e-05
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7,812	LETUS: A Log-Structured Efficient Trusted Universal BlockChain Storage	2024	SIGMOD	5.5393291e-05
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9,342	SChain: A Scalable Consortium Blockchain Exploiting Intra- and Inter-Block Concurrency	2021	VLDB	5.285523e-05
11,488	ChainDash: An Ad-Hoc Blockchain Data Analytics System	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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