Have you ever tried distributed transactions with relational databases? I am delighted to say that yes: checking safety properties of distributed systems, incl

Have you ever tried distributed transactions with relational databases? I am delighted to say that yes: checking safety properties of distributed systems, including those of relational databases, is literally my job. See https://jepsen.io/analyses https://jepsen.io/analyses for a comprehensive list of prior work, or http://jepsen.io/analyses/tidb-2.1.7 http://jepsen.io/analyses/tidb-2.1.7, http://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.1.9 http://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.1.9, http://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1 http://jepsen.io/analyses/yugabyte-db-1.3.1, or http://jepsen.io/analyses/voltdb-6-3 http://jepsen.io/analyses/voltdb-6-3 for recent examples of Jepsen analyses on relational databases.