Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity

Summary: Extends FaRM to provide opacity (strict serializability for committed and aborted txs) while preserving high throughput and availability in data centers. Real-time microsecond-clock synchronization with clock-master failover enables 5.4M new-order txs/sec on 90 nodes with 3-way replication under TPC-C. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5662
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 7.2461483e-05
Overall Rank: 3,624 | 75.14%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3300069

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alex Shamis (Imperial College London; Microsoft)
2. Matthew Renzelmann (Microsoft)
3. Stanko Novakovic (Microsoft; VMware)
4. Georgios Chatzopoulos (EPFL; Microsoft)
5. Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft)
6. Dushyanth Narayanan (Microsoft)
7. Miguel Castro (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shamis_sigmod19,
        title = {{Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity}},
        author = {Shamis, Alex and Renzelmann, Matthew and Novakovic, Stanko and Chatzopoulos, Georgios and Dragojevic, Aleksandar and Narayanan, Dushyanth and Castro, Miguel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300069},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300069},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,212	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	8.9411432e-05
2,343	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.7213493e-05
3,761	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	7.1450129e-05
3,924	A1: A Distributed In-Memory Graph Database	2020	SIGMOD	7.015626e-05
4,519	G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture	2022	VLDB	6.6472999e-05
4,869	Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases	2021	VLDB	6.4709867e-05
7,686	TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System	2024	VLDB	5.5676271e-05
7,913	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,386	A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers	2020	VLDB	5.436614e-05
9,667	HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine	2022	SIGMOD	5.2401605e-05
10,814	Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,839	K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,011	From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,114	Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems	2024	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
38	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047648573
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
172	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00027281663
1,345	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00011090483
1,731	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	9.9081882e-05
1,926	An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	9.4705999e-05
3,661	Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System	2018	VLDB	7.2167755e-05

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