FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database

Summary: FalconDB uses blockchain consensus and verification interfaces to break the security–compatibility–efficiency trilemma in collaborative databases. Minimal per-client storage; digests on the ledger authenticate queries/updates, enabling real-time, concurrent access with blockchain-level security. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5869
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 7.7356769e-05
Overall Rank: 3,122 | 78.59%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3380594

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Authors

1. Yanqing Peng (University of Utah)
2. Min Du (University of California Berkeley)
3. Feifei Li (University of Utah)
4. Raymond Cheng (University of California Berkeley)
5. Dawn Song (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{peng_sigmod20,
        title = {{FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database}},
        author = {Peng, Yanqing and Du, Min and Li, Feifei and Cheng, Raymond and Song, Dawn},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3380594},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3380594},
        year = {2020}
}

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4,304	VeriDB: An SGX-based Verifiable Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.7709608e-05
4,339	NeuChain: A Fast Permissioned Blockchain System with Deterministic Ordering	2022	VLDB	6.7548559e-05
4,754	P2B-Trace: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-based Contact Tracing to Combat Pandemics	2021	SIGMOD	6.5228433e-05
5,045	Do the Rich Get Richer? Fairness Analysis for Blockchain Incentives	2021	SIGMOD	6.3879469e-05
5,213	Spitz: A Verifiable Database System	2020	VLDB	6.3143934e-05
5,549	Hybrid Blockchain Database Systems: Design and Performance	2022	VLDB	6.1789277e-05
5,655	Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion	2021	SIGMOD	6.1321148e-05
7,100	GlassDB: An Efficient Verifiable Ledger Database System Through Transparency	2023	VLDB	5.7037528e-05
7,329	GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism	2023	VLDB	5.6435171e-05
7,971	Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos	2023	VLDB	5.5160445e-05
8,917	A Blockchain System for Clustered Federated Learning with Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer	2024	VLDB	5.3483178e-05
11,351	VeriDKG: A Verifiable SPARQL Query Engine for Decentralized Knowledge Graphs	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,570	Decentralized Crowdsourcing for Human Intelligence Tasks with Efficient On-Chain Cost	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
437	Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases	2006	SIGMOD	0.00018489863
1,456	vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010733831
1,804	Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases	2009	SIGMOD	9.7171985e-05
2,014	Veritas: Shared Verifiable Databases and Tables in the Cloud	2019	CIDR	9.3052282e-05
2,071	Concerto: A High Concurrency Key-Value Store with Integrity	2017	SIGMOD	9.2263103e-05
5,426	Practical Authenticated Pattern Matching with Optimal Proof Size	2015	VLDB	6.2231556e-05

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