RushMon: Real-time Isolation Anomalies Monitoring

Summary: RushMon: first real-time isolation anomalies monitor for high-throughput, low-isolation systems. It detects anomalies by counting cycles in the dependency graph, delivering ~1000x faster reporting with <1% overhead and enabling on-the-fly mitigation of incorrect results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5640
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.2014857e-05
Overall Rank: 9,885 | 32.19%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196932

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Authors

1. Zechao Shang (University of Chicago)
2. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
3. Aaron J. Elmore (University of Chicago)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shang_sigmod18,
        title = {{RushMon: Real-time Isolation Anomalies Monitoring}},
        author = {Shang, Zechao and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Elmore, Aaron J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196932},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196932},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,869	Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases	2021	VLDB	6.4709867e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
473	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00017900942
3,789	Husky: Towards a More Efficient and Expressive Distributed Computing Framework	2016	VLDB	7.1240627e-05
3,940	Quantifying Isolation Anomalies	2009	VLDB	7.0080239e-05
4,297	Graph Analytics Through Fine-Grained Parallelism	2016	SIGMOD	6.7770261e-05

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