GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism

Summary: GriDB restores sharded blockchain DB scalability by moving heavy cross‑shard exchanges off‑chain: a few randomly chosen delegates jointly produce succinct proofs that on‑chain consensus merely verifies, tolerating Byzantine faults. New authenticated data structures provide completeness/correctness/freshness/availability for verifiable relational cross‑shard queries and an off‑chain live load‑balancer enables scalable queries and updates. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6d0db8b0fc0ed25d
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.5865044e-05
Overall Rank: 7,204 | 51.57%
DOI: 10.14778/3587136.3587143

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Authors

1. Zicong Hong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
2. Song Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
3. Enyuan Zhou (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
4. Wuhui Chen (Sun Yat-Sen University)
5. Huawei Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University)
6. Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hong_vldb23,
        title = {{GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism}},
        author = {Hong, Zicong and Guo, Song and Zhou, Enyuan and Chen, Wuhui and Huang, Huawei and Zomaya, Albert},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {7},
        pages = {1685--1698},
        doi = {10.14778/3587136.3587143},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3587136.3587143},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,284	Seer: Accelerating Blockchain Transaction Execution by Fine-Grained Branch Prediction	2025	VLDB	5.0448662e-05
10,557	DAG of DAGs: Order-Fairness Made Practical	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,847	Remora: Scale-out Deterministic Execution for Smart Contracts	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
663	Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014998433
738	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014334201
890	E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00013247078
1,136	BlockchainDB - A Shared Database on Blockchains	2019	VLDB	0.00011875973
1,490	vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010513439
2,424	Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	8.485975e-05
2,835	Fine-Grained, Secure and Efficient Data Provenance on Blockchain Systems	2019	VLDB	7.9553846e-05
3,177	FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database	2020	SIGMOD	7.5668513e-05
5,387	ByShard: Sharding in a Byzantine Environment	2021	VLDB	6.1516222e-05
5,659	Hybrid Blockchain Database Systems: Design and Performance	2022	VLDB	6.0479921e-05
5,775	Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion	2021	SIGMOD	5.9981539e-05

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