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Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable
Summary: Sonata makes multi-database transactions fast and globally serializable by combining commitment-ordering with 2PC and performing only non-blocking, prepare-time coordination via application-level shims that reuse each DB's local concurrency control. No DB internals or query changes; ~7% coordination overhead on TPC-C and up to 11.1x improvement over prior work.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13974
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2025
- Pagerank
- 4.1905499e-05
- Overall Rank
- 10,685 | 25.74%
- DOI
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10.14778/3748191.3748207
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VLDB |
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7.0871666e-05 |
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6.7614151e-05 |
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5.4087328e-05 |
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5.1340013e-05 |
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5.1318353e-05 |
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SIGMOD |
5.0067913e-05 |
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SIGMOD |
4.8044911e-05 |
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VLDB |
4.5956688e-05 |
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PODS |
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