Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems
Summary: Introduces invariant confluence, a necessary-and-sufficient test for when application invariants permit coordination-free execution. A prototype coordinates only when anomalies threaten correctness, achieving up to 25× TPC-C New-Order throughput over serializability on 200 servers. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Peter Bailis (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
- 3. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
- 4. Ali Ghodsi (University of California Berkeley)
- 5. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
- 6. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bailis_vldb15,
title = {{Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems}},
author = {Bailis, Peter and Fekete, Alan and Franklin, Michael J. and Ghodsi, Ali and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stoica, Ion},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '15},
volume = {8},
number = {3},
pages = {185--196},
doi = {10.14778/2735508.2735509},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2735508.2735509},
year = {2015}
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