Using Read Promotion and Mixed Isolation Levels for Performant Yet Serializable Execution of Transaction Programs

Summary: Compute minimal isolation per transaction program in mixed-isolation deployments (for parameterized programs), ensuring serializability and preservation of implicit integrity constraints. Optimize via semantics-preserving code edits and selective read-promotion to boost throughput; demonstrated on SmallBank. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h891f25cc429ff5fc
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank: 11,299 | 24.06%
DOI: 10.14778/3746405.3746412
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Authors

1. Brecht Vandevoort (Hasselt University)
2. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
3. Bas Ketsman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
4. Frank Neven (Hasselt University)
5. Stijn Vansummeren (Hasselt University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{vandevoort_vldb25,
        title = {{Using Read Promotion and Mixed Isolation Levels for Performant Yet Serializable Execution of Transaction Programs}},
        author = {Vandevoort, Brecht and Fekete, Alan and Ketsman, Bas and Neven, Frank and Vansummeren, Stijn},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2846--2858},
        doi = {10.14778/3746405.3746412},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3746405.3746412},
        year = {2025}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058759613
35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00047996489
170	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00027054001
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023915456
237	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023652724
365	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019935521
444	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.0001817002
635	ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015362118
727	Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL	2012	VLDB	0.00014456009
786	Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions	2017	SIGMOD	0.00013983316
797	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013916653
1,194	Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations	2014	VLDB	0.00011581268
2,691	Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions	2005	PODS	8.1213204e-05
2,842	Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases	2015	SIGMOD	7.9468719e-05
3,064	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	7.6883866e-05
4,763	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	6.4272062e-05
6,415	Adaptive Optimistic Concurrency Control for Heterogeneous Workloads	2019	VLDB	5.7905972e-05
10,140	Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates	2021	VLDB	5.0723744e-05
10,141	Deciding Robustness for Lower SQL Isolation Levels	2020	PODS	5.0723744e-05
11,482	When View- and Conflict-Robustness Coincide for Multiversion Concurrency Control	2024	PODS	4.9769913e-05
11,693	Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions in a Multiversion Setting	2023	PODS	4.9769913e-05
11,841	Robustness Against Read Committed: A Free Transactional Lunch	2022	PODS	4.9769913e-05

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