Database and Blockchain Related Paper List

The repo lists recently papers published in the TOP conference whose relate with following topics:

• Blockchain (BC)
  • Cryptocurrency (Crypto)
  • Smart Contract (SC)
• Benchmark (BE)
• Concurrency Control (CC)
• Cloud Native Database (CND)
• Database Transaction Management (DTM)
• Database with modern AI and Hardware (DB4AI)
• Storage Engine (SE)
  • Log-structured merge tree (LSM)
• Query Optimization (QO)
• Outsourcing Database (OD)

Inculding Top Conferences in Database and Distributed System Area

• OSDI (USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation)
• SIGMOD
• VLDB
• FAST
• SOSP
• CIDR

Blockchain Papers

• [BC] Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric, SIGMOD 2019
• [BC, Crypto] FlyClient: Super-Light Clients for Cryptocurrencies 2020 [paper]
• [BC, Crypto] Zether: Towards Privacy in a Smart Contract World [paper]

Database Paper

Database System

• CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database, SIGMOD 2020, [paper]
• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store, Apple Inc, SIGMOD 2021, [Paper]

Alibaba Database Related

• Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges, Li Feifei, VLDB 2019 [paper]

Cloud Native Database

Concurrency Control

• Making Snapshot Isolation Serializable, TODS 2015, [paper]
• Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL, VLDB 2012, [paper]
• TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control, SIGMOD 2016, [paper]
• Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering, MS, VLDB 2018, [paper]
• Handling Highly Contended OLTP Workloads Using Fast Dynamic Partitioning, Dan Suciu ,SIGMOD 2020, [paper]
• Polyjuice: High-Performance Transactions via Learned Concurrency Control, OSDI 2021, [paper]

Database Recovery

• Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database, MS Inc, VLDB 2019, [Paper]

Database Transaction Management

• Loose-Ordering Consistency for Persistent Memory
• TicToc: Time Traveling Optimistic Concurrency Control, Andy Pavlo, SIGMOD 2016, [MVCC] [Paper]
• Cicada: Dependably Fast Multi-Core In-Memory Transactions, SIGMOD 2017, [In-Memory] [Paper]
• An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control, Andy Pavlo,VLDB 2017, [MVCC]
• Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications, [paper] -Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases, VLDB 2021, [paper]

Database with Machine Learning

• Automatic Database Management System Tuning ThroughLarge-scale Machine Learning, Andy Pavlo, SIGMOD 2017, [AI FOR DB]
• Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems, Lin Ma,Andy Pavlo, SIGMOD 2018, [paper]
• Leaper: A Learned Prefetcher for Cache Invalidation in LSM-tree based Storage Engines, Li FeiFei, Zou Lei, VLDB 2020, [paper]
• iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases, Li FeiFei, VLDB 2019
• An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Guoliang Li and Tencent , SIGMOD 2019
• Scheduling OLTP Transactions via Learned Abort Prediction, Andy Pavlo , SIGMOD 2019, [paper]

Database with Modern Hardware

• A Study of the Fundamental Performance Characteristics of GPUs and CPUs for Database Analytics, SIGMOD 2020, Samuel Madden, Xiangyao Yu, [paper]

Deterministic Database System

• An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems, VLDB 2014, [Paper]
• Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database, VLDB 2020, [paper]

Query Optimization

• An End-to-End Learning-based Cost Estimator, Li guoliang, VLDB 2019, [paper]

LSM-Tree

• From WiscKey to Bourbon: A Learned Index for Log-Structured Merge Trees, OSDI 2020, [paper]

Benchmark

• Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases, Jim Gary, SIGMOD 1994

Blockchain and Database Top Researchers

Industry

• Li Feifei, VP, Alibaba Damo, [Cloud native database]

Academic

• Andy Pavlo, Associate Professor，CMU, [Database system] [Homepage]
  • Xiangyao Yu, Assistant Professor, UW, [Database system] [Homepage]
• Lei chen, Chair Professor, HKUST, [Crowdsourcing, Blockchain, Knowledge base, Data management]
• Guoliang li, Professor, Tsinghua , [Crowdsourcing, Database]
• Samuel Madden, Professor, MIT, [Database system][Homepage]
  • Daniel J. Abadi, Professor, umd, [Database system][Homepage]
• Lorenzo Alvisi

Other references

• PostgreSQL Official Document [link]
• SQLServer Official Document [link]
• Mysql Official Document [link]
• Raft in Live [link]
• ZKP [link]