Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity
Summary: Empirical analysis of ORM-backed apps shows feral invariants dominate integrity, over 37× more popular than transactions. Evaluates invariants’ correctness (up to 86.9%), catalogs cases vulnerable to concurrency-induced corruption, and proposes DB-design guidance to better support modern ORM programming. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Peter Bailis (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
- 3. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
- 4. Ali Ghodsi (University of California Berkeley)
- 5. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
- 6. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bailis_sigmod15,
title = {{Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity}},
author = {Bailis, Peter and Fekete, Alan and Franklin, Michael J. and Ghodsi, Ali and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stoica, Ion},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2737784},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2737784},
year = {2015}
}
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