A. Jesse Jiryu Davis 10/13/2023

Review: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB

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This article reviews a 2023 USENIX ATC paper detailing Amazon's design for adding distributed, serializable ACID transactions to the DynamoDB key-value store. It covers the system's architecture, the one-shot transaction API, and the engineering challenges of integrating transactions while maintaining high scalability, availability, and predictable performance for non-transactional operations.

Review: Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB

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