TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection

Summary: TxnSails: a middle‑tier achieving serializable scheduling via a unified CC that leverages lower isolation levels plus cross‑isolation validation for safe runtime transitions. A learned model selects isolation levels by trading throughput vs validation cost, yielding up to 26.7× vs prior work and 4.8× vs Postgres serializable. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14040
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,729 | 25.37%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749689

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