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Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale
Summary: Detock: concurrency control and deadlock handling for strictly serializable multi-region transactions in geo-replicated stores. Practical complete implementation; near-zero degradation under high conflict; throughput orders of magnitude higher; latency up to 5x faster than state-of-the-art geo replication.
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Paper ID
hd0cdf21072c4c183
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
6.2984992e-05
Overall Rank
5,024 | 66.33%
DOI
10.1145/3589293
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BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{nguyen_sigmod23,
title = {{Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale}},
author = {Nguyen, Cuong D. T. and Miller, Johann K. and Abadi, Daniel J.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589293},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589293},
year = {2023}
}
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