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Knock Out 2PC with Practicality Intact: a High-performance and General Distributed Transaction Protocol (Technical Report)
Ziliang Lai, Hua Fan, Wenchao Zhou +4
Two-phase-commit (2PC) has been widely adopted for distributed transaction processing, but it also jeopardizes throughput by introducing two rounds of network communications and tw…
When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database
Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Eric Lo
Private blockchain as a replicated transactional system shares many commonalities with distributed database. However, the intimacy between private blockchain and deterministic data…
ByteStore: Hybrid Layouts for Main-Memory Column Stores
Pengfei Zhang, Ziqiang Feng, Eric Lo +1
The performance of main memory column stores highly depends on the scan and lookup operations on the base column layouts. Existing column-stores adopt a homogeneous column layout,…
Are Updatable Learned Indexes Ready?
Chaichon Wongkham, Baotong Lu, Chris Liu +3
Recently, numerous promising results have shown that updatable learned indexes can perform better than traditional indexes with much lower memory space consumption. But it is unkno…
APEX: A High-Performance Learned Index on Persistent Memory
Baotong Lu, Jialin Ding, Eric Lo +2
The recently released persistent memory (PM) offers high performance, persistence, and is cheaper than DRAM. This opens up new possibilities for indexes that operate and persist da…
Saguaro: An Edge Computing-Enabled Hierarchical Permissioned Blockchain
Mohammad Javad Amiri, Ziliang Lai, Liana Patel +3
We present Saguaro, a permissioned blockchain system designed specifically for edge computing networks. Saguaro leverages the hierarchical structure of edge computing networks to r…