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Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion
Summary: Twin study of blockchains vs distributed DBs; four-dimension taxonomy: replication, concurrency, storage, sharding; contrasts security- vs performance-driven design. Empirical analysis of Quorum, Hyperledger Fabric, TiDB, etcd; plus a back-of-the-envelope framework for forecasting blockchain–DB hybrids.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6070
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2021
- Pagerank
- 5.2112094e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,098 | 57.58%
- DOI
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10.1145/3448016.3452789
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 44 |
The Design Of Postgres |
1986 |
SIGMOD |
0.00071838587 |
| 137 |
H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System |
2008 |
VLDB |
0.00042342967 |
| 281 |
LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
0.0002906793 |
| 340 |
OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases |
2014 |
VLDB |
0.00026841628 |
| 360 |
BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
0.00025790132 |
| 377 |
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process |
1983 |
PODS |
0.00025059979 |
| 381 |
FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs |
2010 |
SIGMOD |
0.00024873637 |
| 390 |
CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00024607299 |
| 521 |
Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash |
2011 |
CIDR |
0.00021139547 |
| 717 |
Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00017639814 |
| 1,207 |
BlockchainDB - A Shared Database on Blockchains |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00013277133 |
| 1,240 |
Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00013100297 |
| 1,419 |
Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations |
2014 |
VLDB |
0.00012079793 |
| 1,975 |
Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database |
2019 |
VLDB |
9.8844759e-05 |
| 2,289 |
Veritas: Shared Verifiable Databases and Tables in the Cloud |
2019 |
CIDR |
9.0946871e-05 |
| 2,532 |
A Transactional Perspective on Execute-order-validate Blockchains |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
8.5900158e-05 |
| 2,612 |
LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification |
2020 |
VLDB |
8.4525247e-05 |
| 2,689 |
LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud |
2012 |
VLDB |
8.2942515e-05 |
| 2,972 |
ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications |
2018 |
VLDB |
7.79259e-05 |
| 3,149 |
Fine-Grained, Secure and Efficient Data Provenance on Blockchain Systems |
2019 |
VLDB |
7.4741595e-05 |
| 3,500 |
FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
7.0373486e-05 |
| 5,573 |
Spitz: A Verifiable Database System |
2020 |
VLDB |
5.4276252e-05 |
| 6,891 |
Analysis of Indexing Structures for Immutable Data |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
4.8927093e-05 |
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