My go-to for a critique of distributed transactions is "Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion"[1] which says in the abstract "performance

My go-to for a critique of distributed transactions is "Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion"[1] which says in the abstract "performance costs and fragility make them impractical". That was 2007, though. 1 https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs223/papers/cidr07p15.pdf https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs223/papers/cidr07p15.pdf