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Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric
Summary: Analyzes Hyperledger Fabric from a database perspective, revealing gaps in its transaction pipeline. Fabric++ adds DB ideas like reordering and early abort, boosting throughput up to 12× and cutting latency by about half on Smallbank and a custom workload.
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h5d3c211640bdc3a6
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00012325917
Overall Rank
1,042 | 93.02%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3319883
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@inproceedings{sharma_sigmod19,
title = {{Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric}},
author = {Sharma, Ankur and Schuhknecht, Felix Martin and Agrawal, Divya and Dittrich, Jens},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3319883},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3319883},
year = {2019}
}
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