Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database
Summary: First decentralized replicated relational DB with blockchain-like properties on Postgres for a permissioned setting using consensus commit order. Two models: pre-commit order and parallel ordering with a blockheight SSI variant; PostgreSQL evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Senthil Nathan (IBM)
- 2. Chander Govindarajan (IBM)
- 3. Adarsh Saraf (IBM)
- 4. Manish Sethi (IBM)
- 5. Praveen Jayachandran (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{nathan_vldb19,
title = {{Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database}},
author = {Nathan, Senthil and Govindarajan, Chander and Saraf, Adarsh and Sethi, Manish and Jayachandran, Praveen},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '19},
volume = {12},
number = {11},
pages = {1539--1552},
doi = {10.14778/3342263.3342632},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3342263.3342632},
year = {2019}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058631912 |
| 166 | The Dangers of Replication and a Solution | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00027196717 |
| 237 | Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00023615848 |
| 451 | Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00018054106 |
| 725 | Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00014434166 |
| 1,434 | Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00010661815 |
| 2,066 | Veritas: Shared Verifiable Databases and Tables in the Cloud | 2019 | CIDR | 9.072678e-05 |
| 2,363 | A Locking Protocol For Resource Coordination In Distributed Databases | 1978 | SIGMOD | 8.5599585e-05 |
| 5,452 | When Query Authentication Meets Fine-Grained Access Control: A Zero-Knowledge Approach | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.1081162e-05 |
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