The Case for Invariant-Based Concurrency Control
Summary: Proposes using application invariants to determine when coordination is necessary, enabling coordination-free execution and far better scalability than serializability for many workloads. Classifies which invariants need coordination, reports 25× TPC‑C speedups, and outlines enforcement and analysis challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Peter Bailis (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bailis_cidr15,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '15},
title = {{The Case for Invariant-Based Concurrency Control}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Bailis, Peter},
year = {2015}
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| 68 | The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00038446206 |
| 695 | An Optimality Theory of Concurrency Control for Databases | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00014910218 |
| 867 | Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013511197 |
| 1,187 | Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00011760199 |
| 1,961 | Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.4000927e-05 |
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