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Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases

Summary: Shows atomic-commit tuning hits a tail-latency wall in geo DBs; advocates geo-aware concurrency control and access-method selection. Bonspiel is a SQL-compliant, strongly-consistent geo DB that caps TPC-C tail at 1.8s while preserving throughput and average latency. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf0ebcff27cbc732f
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
5.1176637e-05
Overall Rank
9,869 | 33.65%
DOI
10.14778/3749646.3749658

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BibTeX Citation

@article{cui_vldb25,
        title = {{Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases}},
        author = {Cui, Fan and Lo, Eric and Srivastava, Srijan and Lai, Ziliang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3840--3853},
        doi = {10.14778/3749646.3749658},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3749646.3749658},
        year = {2025}
}

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185 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00026072278
445 Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores 2015 VLDB 0.00018176701
472 Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00017692264
617 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015555815
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1,573 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010197084
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1,704 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.8314656e-05
2,288 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 8.6912082e-05
2,509 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.3705575e-05
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2,850 Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling 1989 VLDB 7.9421331e-05
3,028 Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna 2019 VLDB 7.7377953e-05
3,047 Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning 2020 SIGMOD 7.7124257e-05
3,062 Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions 2020 VLDB 7.6920087e-05
3,576 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 7.1940408e-05
3,722 Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System 2018 VLDB 7.0713122e-05
3,749 MaaT: Effective and scalable coordination of distributed transactions in the cloud 2014 VLDB 7.0529124e-05
3,834 Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking 2021 SIGMOD 6.993185e-05
3,932 Controlled Lock Violation 2013 SIGMOD 6.9182359e-05
4,505 Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems 1997 SIGMOD 6.5727503e-05
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4,820 Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases 2021 VLDB 6.3962005e-05
4,997 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.3216631e-05
5,182 Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores 2012 VLDB 6.2404941e-05
5,322 Unifying Consensus and Atomic Commitment for Effective Cloud Data Management 2019 VLDB 6.1806962e-05
5,821 Locks with Constrained Sharing (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 5.9830213e-05
6,180 Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency 2022 SIGMOD 5.8595351e-05
6,380 When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database 2023 SIGMOD 5.8072595e-05
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