Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems
Summary: Deterministic scheduling and replication for partitioned storage enable high-throughput transactions with minimal cross-partition contention. Replicating inputs (not effects) enables multiple consistency levels, including Paxos-style geo-replication, with near-linear disk-based scaling and no single point of failure. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander Thomson (Yale University)
- 2. Thaddeus Diamond (Yale University)
- 3. Shu-Chun Weng (Yale University)
- 4. Kun Ren (Yale University)
- 5. Philip Shao (Yale University)
- 6. Daniel J. Abadi (Yale University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{thomson_sigmod12,
title = {{Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems}},
author = {Thomson, Alexander and Diamond, Thaddeus and Weng, Shu-Chun and Ren, Kun and Shao, Philip and Abadi, Daniel J.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213838},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213838},
year = {2012}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00044047047 |
| 70 | The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00037851432 |
| 139 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00029466567 |
| 365 | Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00019935521 |
| 782 | The Case for Determinism in Database Systems | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00014018588 |
| 993 | Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud | 2009 | CIDR | 0.00012633413 |
| 1,017 | Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00012481657 |
| 1,260 | Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011293425 |
| 1,271 | Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00011252169 |
| 2,599 | Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services | 2009 | VLDB | 8.2361319e-05 |
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