Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable
Summary: Sonata makes multi-database transactions fast and globally serializable by combining commitment-ordering with 2PC and performing only non-blocking, prepare-time coordination via application-level shims that reuse each DB's local concurrency control. No DB internals or query changes; ~7% coordination overhead on TPC-C and up to 11.1x improvement over prior work. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Chuzhe Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- 2. Zhaoguo Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- 3. Jinyang Li (New York University)
- 4. Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
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@article{tang_vldb25,
title = {{Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable}},
author = {Tang, Chuzhe and Wang, Zhaoguo and Li, Jinyang and Chen, Haibo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {10},
pages = {3449--3462},
doi = {10.14778/3748191.3748207},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3748191.3748207},
year = {2025}
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