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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
h2d1fff361f3729da
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
5.9771676e-05
Overall Rank
5,785 | 61.23%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3452789

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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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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049063803
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036267455
186 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00026001543
236 OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases 2014 VLDB 0.00023639649
238 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.00023594951
280 FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs 2010 SIGMOD 0.00022267903
365 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.00019904414
394 Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process 1983 PODS 0.00019141584
487 BLOCKBENCH: A Framework for Analyzing Private Blockchains 2017 SIGMOD 0.00017413439
666 Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding 2019 SIGMOD 0.00014946867
1,042 Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012325917
1,139 BlockchainDB - A Shared Database on Blockchains 2019 VLDB 0.00011833542
1,192 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011555425
1,579 Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database 2019 VLDB 0.00010155728
2,066 Veritas: Shared Verifiable Databases and Tables in the Cloud 2019 CIDR 9.072678e-05
2,146 A Transactional Perspective on Execute-order-validate Blockchains 2020 SIGMOD 8.9604977e-05
2,775 LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 8.0140752e-05
2,845 Fine-Grained, Secure and Efficient Data Provenance on Blockchain Systems 2019 VLDB 7.9277292e-05
2,868 LedgerDB: A Centralized Ledger Database for Universal Audit and Verification 2020 VLDB 7.9050362e-05
3,185 FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database 2020 SIGMOD 7.5405057e-05
3,287 ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications 2018 VLDB 7.4411317e-05
5,361 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.1497409e-05
6,888 Analysis of Indexing Structures for Immutable Data 2020 SIGMOD 5.6394555e-05
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