Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale

Summary: Detock: concurrency control and deadlock handling for strictly serializable multi-region transactions in geo-replicated stores. Practical complete implementation; near-zero degradation under high conflict; throughput orders of magnitude higher; latency up to 5x faster than state-of-the-art geo replication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6713
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 6.2649486e-05
Overall Rank: 5,324 | 63.48%
DOI: 10.1145/3589293

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Authors

1. Cuong D. T. Nguyen (University of Maryland)
2. Johann K. Miller (University of Maryland)
3. Daniel J. Abadi (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nguyen_sigmod23,
        title = {{Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale}},
        author = {Nguyen, Cuong D. T. and Miller, Johann K. and Abadi, Daniel J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3589293},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589293},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,867	Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems	2024	VLDB	5.7506468e-05
9,517	Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads?	2025	SIGMOD	5.2566631e-05
9,692	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
10,325	Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,467	LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,798	Wait and See: A Delayed Transactions Partitioning Approach in Deterministic Database Systems for Better Performance	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,839	K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,920	Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,093	PolyBase: Adapting to Data Affinity Changes in Geo-Replicated Database via Row-Level Consensus-Group Affiliation Re-Assignment	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,114	Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems	2024	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
68	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00038446206
144	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029554682
208	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024968157
1,247	Don't be lazy, be consistent: Postgres-R, A new way to implement Database Replication	2000	VLDB	0.00011500006
1,570	Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010334131
1,700	Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database	2020	VLDB	9.9726588e-05
1,775	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions	2019	VLDB	9.7870611e-05
2,419	Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems	2016	SIGMOD	8.6054486e-05
2,497	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.5020762e-05
2,765	An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems	2014	VLDB	8.1530951e-05
3,053	Lazy Evaluation of Transactions in Database Systems	2014	SIGMOD	7.8098188e-05
3,683	Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB	2022	SIGMOD	7.2035148e-05
3,696	Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions	2019	VLDB	7.1905677e-05
4,274	Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?	2018	VLDB	6.7904541e-05
4,552	MorphoSys: Automatic Physical Design Metamorphosis for Distributed Database Systems	2020	VLDB	6.6348814e-05

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