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At the 2021 ACM SIGMOD conference in Xi'an, Tencent Cloud Database TDSQL team had two papers accepted, introducing the innovative Spitfire three-tier buffer manager and adaptive multilevel serializability models, marking significant breakthroughs in database technology.
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