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Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

Summary: Proposes Read Atomic (RA) isolation for partitioned transactions. RAMP delivers atomic visibility across partitions with synchronization-independence and partition-independent comms, using limited multi-versioning for snapshot reads and linear scaling to 100 servers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf21d2c8e4082d759
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
9.3202419e-05
Overall Rank
1,948 | 86.91%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2588562

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bailis_sigmod14,
        title = {{Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions}},
        author = {Bailis, Peter and Fekete, Alan and Ghodsi, Ali and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2588562},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2588562},
        year = {2014}
}

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