Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity

Summary: Extends FaRM to provide opacity (strict serializability for committed and aborted txs) while preserving high throughput and availability in data centers. Real-time microsecond-clock synchronization with clock-master failover enables 5.4M new-order txs/sec on 90 nodes with 3-way replication under TPC-C. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hf6435087186a9cb3
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 7.1063551e-05
Overall Rank: 3,676 | 75.29%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3300069

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alex Shamis (Imperial College London; Microsoft)
2. Matthew Renzelmann (Microsoft)
3. Stanko Novakovic (Microsoft; VMware)
4. Georgios Chatzopoulos (EPFL; Microsoft)
5. Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft)
6. Dushyanth Narayanan (Microsoft)
7. Miguel Castro (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shamis_sigmod19,
        title = {{Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity}},
        author = {Shamis, Alex and Renzelmann, Matthew and Novakovic, Stanko and Chatzopoulos, Georgios and Dragojevic, Aleksandar and Narayanan, Dushyanth and Castro, Miguel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3300069},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3300069},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,966	Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory	2022	SIGMOD	9.3039057e-05
2,350	Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs	2020	VLDB	8.5984201e-05
3,826	ScaleStore: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA	2022	SIGMOD	6.9984204e-05
3,971	A1: A Distributed In-Memory Graph Database	2020	SIGMOD	6.8885062e-05
4,597	G-Tran: A High Performance Distributed Graph Database with a Decentralized Architecture	2022	VLDB	6.5092261e-05
4,820	Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases	2021	VLDB	6.3962005e-05
7,749	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	5.4598119e-05
7,829	TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System	2024	VLDB	5.4438901e-05
8,371	A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers	2020	VLDB	5.3448014e-05
9,842	HiEngine: How to Architect a Cloud-Native Memory-Optimized Database Engine	2022	SIGMOD	5.1225854e-05
10,259	From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC	2025	VLDB	5.050482e-05
11,223	Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,245	K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,462	Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems	2024	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00048001919
55	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040471598
170	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.0002705961
1,339	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010975458
1,757	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	9.7131504e-05
1,943	An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	9.3283112e-05
3,722	Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP Database Management System	2018	VLDB	7.0713122e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	6,050	Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data	1988	SIGMOD
2	3,749	MaaT: Effective and scalable coordination of distributed transactions in the cloud	2014	VLDB
3	4,414	Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores	2019	VLDB
4	1,339	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB
5	2,509	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB
6	11,823	Decoupled Transactions: Low Tail Latency Online Transactions Atop Jittery Servers	2022	CIDR
7	10,934	A Tree-Structured Two-Phase Commit Framework for OceanBase: Optimizing Scalability and Consistency	2026	VLDB
8	4,505	Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems	1997	SIGMOD
9	1,194	Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations	2014	VLDB
10	7,739	How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit?	2017	PODS