TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection
Summary: TxnSails: a middle‑tier achieving serializable scheduling via a unified CC that leverages lower isolation levels plus cross‑isolation validation for safe runtime transitions. A learned model selects isolation levels by trading throughput vs validation cost, yielding up to 26.7× vs prior work and 4.8× vs Postgres serializable. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Qiyu Zhuang (Renmin University of China)
- 2. Wei Lu (Renmin University of China)
- 3. Shuang Liu (Renmin University of China)
- 4. Yuxing Chen (Tencent)
- 5. Xinyue Shi (Renmin University of China)
- 6. Zhanhao Zhao (Renmin University of China)
- 7. Yipeng Sun (Renmin University of China)
- 8. Anqun Pan (Tencent)
- 9. Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China)
BibTeX Citation
@article{zhuang_vldb25,
title = {{TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection}},
author = {Zhuang, Qiyu and Lu, Wei and Liu, Shuang and Chen, Yuxing and Shi, Xinyue and Zhao, Zhanhao and Sun, Yipeng and Pan, Anqun and Du, Xiaoyong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {11},
pages = {4227--4240},
doi = {10.14778/3749646.3749689},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3749646.3749689},
year = {2025}
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| 10,230 | Modeling Concurrency Control as a Learnable Function | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.0547568e-05 |
| 10,939 | Seron: Smart Query Router for Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Databases with Shared Storage | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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