Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems

Summary: Proposes reactors, a relational actor model for in-memory OLTP with serializable application calls and intra-transaction parallelism. ReactDB enables flexible virtualization from shared-nothing to shared-everything, with asynchronous execution and low overhead for latency control. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5472
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.893685e-05
Overall Rank: 4,828 | 66.42%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3183752

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Vivek Shah
2. Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,184	CoroBase: Coroutine-Oriented Main-Memory Database Engine	2021	VLDB	6.3779731e-05
5,187	Stateful Functions as a Service in Action	2019	VLDB	5.6400706e-05
5,464	A.M.B.R.O.S.I.A: Providing Performant Virtual Resiliency for Distributed Applications	2020	VLDB	5.4933659e-05
7,844	InTime: Towards Performance Predictability In Byzantine Fault Tolerant Proof-of-Stake Consensus	2025	SIGMOD	4.6366294e-05
8,229	Hybrid Deterministic and Nondeterministic Execution of Transactions in Actor Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.554297e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00052563276
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
338	Data-Oriented Transaction Execution	2010	VLDB	0.00026973858
340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
603	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00019351031
635	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00018879031
933	An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015232301
1,108	Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database	2018	VLDB	0.00013984276
1,303	The O2 Database Programming Language	1989	VLDB	0.00012693967
1,385	SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	CIDR	0.00012261812
1,603	PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP	2011	VLDB	0.00011196902
2,445	OLTP on Hardware Islands	2012	VLDB	8.8057827e-05
2,926	Design Principles for Scaling Multi-core OLTP Under High Contention	2016	SIGMOD	7.884983e-05
5,505	A Top-Down Approach to Achieving Performance Predictability in Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	5.4734224e-05
5,945	Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database	2017	CIDR	5.2622326e-05
5,969	MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database	2010	VLDB	5.2489117e-05

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