Litmus: Towards a Practical Database Management System with Verifiable ACID Properties and Transaction Correctness
Summary: Litmus provides verifiable proofs of transaction correctness (atomicity, serializability) via DBMS-crypto co-design. YCSB/TPCC prototype hits >17k verifiable txn/s under cryptographic assumptions; ~30KB proofs per batch, verified in ~300s; enables consistency verification. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yu Xia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Matthew Butrovich (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 5. Srinivas Devadas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{xia_sigmod22,
title = {{Litmus: Towards a Practical Database Management System with Verifiable ACID Properties and Transaction Correctness}},
author = {Xia, Yu and Yu, Xiangyao and Butrovich, Matthew and Pavlo, Andrew and Devadas, Srinivas},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517851},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517851},
year = {2022}
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| 8,683 | VeriBench: Analyzing the Performance of Database Systems with Verifiability | 2023 | VLDB | 5.3854006e-05 |
| 9,871 | Finding Logic Bugs in Spatial Database Engines via Affine Equivalent Inputs | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.2043672e-05 |
| 9,896 | VeriTxn: Verifiable Transactions for Cloud-Native Databases with Storage Disaggregation | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.1997534e-05 |
| 10,272 | NeurBench: A Benchmark Suite for Learned Database Components with Drift Modeling: [Experiments & Analysis] | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00040139242 |
| 226 | OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00024027277 |
| 1,080 | Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations | 2021 | VLDB | 0.00012257972 |
| 1,456 | vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00010733831 |
| 2,052 | ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications | 2017 | SIGMOD | 9.251901e-05 |
| 5,315 | When Query Authentication Meets Fine-Grained Access Control: A Zero-Knowledge Approach | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.2688062e-05 |
| 7,004 | vChain: A Blockchain System Ensuring Query Integrity | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.7277937e-05 |
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