Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems

Summary: Deterministic scheduling and replication for partitioned storage enable high-throughput transactions with minimal cross-partition contention. Replicating inputs (not effects) enables multiple consistency levels, including Paxos-style geo-replication, with near-linear disk-based scaling and no single point of failure. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4508
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00040347584
Overall Rank: 57 | 99.61%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,895	A Multicore Database Is Not a Distributed System	2015	CIDR	5.1725247e-05
12,030	Message Futures: Fast Commitment of Transactions in Multi-datacenter Environments	2013	CIDR	5.1725247e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
46	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.0004507937
66	The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00038926714
142	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029935122
374	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.0001983878
768	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.00014240632
1,011	Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure	2010	SIGMOD	0.00012752185
1,045	Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud	2009	CIDR	0.00012556928
1,238	Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore	2011	VLDB	0.00011601683
1,241	Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011593628
2,591	Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services	2009	VLDB	8.4475112e-05

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