GRAIL: Checking Transaction Isolation Violations with Graph Queries

Distributed databases are surging in popularity with the growing need for performance and fault tolerance. However, implementing transaction isolation models on distributed databases is more challenging due to their sharding and replication. As a result, they can produce executions that violate their claimed isolation guarantees. In this work...

Testing Distributed Database Isolation through Anti-Pattern Detection

Distributed databases often struggle to fulfill their transactional isolation guarantees due to sharding and replication. As a result, the problem of checking isolation levels is consistently receiving attention from academia and industries. Transactional dependency graphs form a useful abstraction to analyze the transactions’ dependencies and...