Entangled Transactions

Summary: Introduces entangled transactions, which communicate via entangled queries rather than executing in isolation. Defines ACID-like semantics, execution models, and a prototype demonstrating practical viability for collaborative, interdependent applications. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h84f006cebf60f2db
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.3210383e-05
Overall Rank: 8,534 | 42.63%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402727

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Nitin Gupta (Cornell University)
2. Milos Nikolic (EPFL)
3. Sudip Roy (Cornell University)
4. Gabriel Bender (Cornell University)
5. Lucja Kot (Cornell University)
6. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University; Max Planck Institute)
7. Christoph Koch (EPFL)

BibTeX Citation

@article{gupta_vldb11,
        title = {{Entangled Transactions}},
        author = {Gupta, Nitin and Nikolic, Milos and Roy, Sudip and Bender, Gabriel and Kot, Lucja and Gehrke, Johannes and Koch, Christoph},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {887--898},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402727},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402727},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,391	Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First	2026	CIDR	6.1504174e-05
6,769	Quantum Databases	2013	CIDR	5.6867236e-05
7,575	The Complexity of Social Coordination	2012	VLDB	5.4933495e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
66	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038047495
1,738	Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities	1988	VLDB	9.7487946e-05
4,579	Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Data-Driven Coordination	2011	SIGMOD	6.5221873e-05
5,317	Cooperative Transaction Hierarchies: A Transaction Model to Support Design Applications	1990	VLDB	6.1835441e-05
7,936	Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends?	2009	CIDR	5.4227683e-05

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