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)
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Authors
- 1. Pingcheng Ruan (National University of Singapore)
- 2. Tien Tuan Anh Dinh (Singapore Institute of Technology)
- 3. Dumitrel Loghin (National University of Singapore)
- 4. Meihui Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- 5. Gang Chen (Zhejiang University)
- 6. Qian Lin (National University of Singapore)
- 7. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ruan_sigmod21,
title = {{Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion}},
author = {Ruan, Pingcheng and Dinh, Tien Tuan Anh and Loghin, Dumitrel and Zhang, Meihui and Chen, Gang and Lin, Qian and Ooi, Beng Chin},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452789},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452789},
year = {2021}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,549 | Hybrid Blockchain Database Systems: Design and Performance | 2022 | VLDB | 6.1789277e-05 |
| 6,476 | When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.8686486e-05 |
| 7,329 | GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism | 2023 | VLDB | 5.6435171e-05 |
| 7,509 | Qanaat: A Scalable Multi-Enterprise Permissioned Blockchain System with Confidentiality Guarantees | 2022 | VLDB | 5.6029996e-05 |
| 11,351 | VeriDKG: A Verifiable SPARQL Query Engine for Decentralized Knowledge Graphs | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,382 | How To Optimize My Blockchain? A Multi-Level Recommendation Approach | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,426 | Auto-Tuning with Reinforcement Learning for Permissioned Blockchain Systems | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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