Ok, sorry about that if it wasn't correct. But are you still not globally ordering every cross-partition transaction - "every scheduler to piece together its own view of a global transaction order by interleaving (in a deterministic, round-robin manner) all sequencers’ batches for that epoch". Even if the sequencers are distributed and execute the transactions in parallel, they need to agree on a total order. This contrast with the lock-aware programming model in NDB, where programmers can allow cross-partition transactions to proceed immediately in parallel if they are sure that they don't conflict.