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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
4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank
11,354 | 23.90%
DOI
10.14778/3746405.3746412
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@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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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
19 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00058631912
35 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00047937476
172 High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases 2012 VLDB 0.00027021768
228 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023872855
237 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023615848
365 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.00019904414
447 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018126139
636 ERMIA: Fast Memory-Optimized Database System for Heterogeneous Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015329098
725 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00014434166
773 Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014075557
797 Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases 2010 SIGMOD 0.0001388084
1,192 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011555425
2,697 Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions 2005 PODS 8.1024175e-05
2,850 Optimizing Optimistic Concurrency Control for Tree-Structured, Log-Structured Databases 2015 SIGMOD 7.9214453e-05
3,073 Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions 2020 VLDB 7.6660818e-05
4,782 Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting 2018 SIGMOD 6.4059564e-05
6,424 Adaptive Optimistic Concurrency Control for Heterogeneous Workloads 2019 VLDB 5.7716515e-05
10,177 Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates 2021 VLDB 5.055639e-05
10,178 Deciding Robustness for Lower SQL Isolation Levels 2020 PODS 5.055639e-05
11,534 When View- and Conflict-Robustness Coincide for Multiversion Concurrency Control 2024 PODS 4.9605343e-05
11,739 Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions in a Multiversion Setting 2023 PODS 4.9605343e-05
11,885 Robustness Against Read Committed: A Free Transactional Lunch 2022 PODS 4.9605343e-05
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