Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data
Summary: Highlights that 'mammoth' transactions—operations touching huge numbers of graph items—are common in graph workloads yet existing systems either suffer severe performance or abandon transactional semantics. Argues graph-specific properties can enable new concurrency-control designs that efficiently preserve strong isolation for such large transactions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Audrey Cheng (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Jack Waudby (Neo4j)
- 3. Natacha Crooks (University of California Berkeley)
- 4. Hugo Firth (Neo4j)
- 5. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cheng_vldb24,
title = {{Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data}},
author = {Cheng, Audrey and Waudby, Jack and Crooks, Natacha and Firth, Hugo and Stoica, Ion},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {4},
pages = {904--911},
doi = {10.14778/3636218.3636241},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3636218.3636241},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,891 | GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.1997534e-05 |
| 10,013 | Rebirth-Retire: A Concurrency Control Protocol Adaptable to Different Levels of Contention | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1770751e-05 |
| 10,879 | Fair Transaction Processing for Multi-Tenant Databases | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,948 | Shifting Transaction Isolation on Graphs: From Systems to Data | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,993 | TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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