Ankur Sharma

ChainifyDB: How to Blockchainify any Data Management System

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Today's permissioned blockchain systems come in a stand-alone fashion and require the users to integrate yet another full-fledged transaction processing system into their already complex data management landscape. This seems odd as blockchains and traditional …

Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular\n High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Efficient transactional management is a delicate task. As systems face\ntransactions of inherently different types, ranging from point updates to long\nrunning analytical computations, it is hard to satisfy their individual\nrequirements with a single processing component. Unfortunately, …