Thomson’s & Abadi’s proposal As a solu?on to these problems Thomson & Abadi propose the following: 1. There exists a scheduler which defines an a-‐priori sequence for the transac?ons. 2. Each transac?on has to acquire all locks at the beginning. 3. Aborts are not allowed 4. The distributed sub-‐transac?on behave completely iden?cal in all nodes These requirements indeed increase determinism of SQL databases, but at the cost of adding a single bo6leneck that nega?vely impacts scalability. Statement (5) now becomes doubgul at least.