Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions

Summary: Skeena enables cross-engine transactions across heterogeneous engines (in-memory and storage-centric). A lightweight snapshot-tracking structure with an atomic commit protocol ensures correctness across isolation levels, enabling up to 30x throughput via cross-engine table placement. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6481
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.8378766e-05
Overall Rank: 7,071 | 50.86%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3526171

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4,519	Controlled Lock Violation	2013	SIGMOD	6.1125985e-05
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