RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems
Summary: RemusDB provides transparent HA for any DBMS via virtualization-layer state replication, with minimal DBMS changes. Overhead up to 32% pre-optimizations; optimized path reaches ≤3s failover on two DBMS in benchmarks, prompting HA split in-DBMS/infra. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Umar Farooq Minhas (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Shriram Rajagopalan (University of British Columbia)
- 3. Brendan Cully (University of British Columbia)
- 4. Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo)
- 5. Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo)
- 6. Andrew Warfield (University of British Columbia)
BibTeX Citation
@article{minhas_vldb11,
title = {{RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems}},
author = {Minhas, Umar Farooq and Rajagopalan, Shriram and Cully, Brendan and Aboulnaga, Ashraf and Salem, Kenneth and Warfield, Andrew},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '11},
volume = {4},
number = {11},
pages = {738--749},
doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402714},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402714},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,088 | Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids | 2018 | VLDB | 7.7694381e-05 |
| 3,243 | Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks | 2019 | VLDB | 7.6051655e-05 |
| 6,402 | C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up | 2023 | VLDB | 5.8859793e-05 |
| 6,486 | Madeus: Database Live Migration Middleware under Heavy Workloads for Cloud Environment | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.8651891e-05 |
| 10,098 | Not for the Timid: On the Impact of Aggressive Over-booking in the Cloud | 2016 | VLDB | 5.1498503e-05 |
| 10,680 | Ultraverse: An Efficient What-if Analysis Framework for Software Applications Interacting with Database Systems | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,333 | The Case for DBMS Live Patching | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164 | The Dangers of Replication and a Solution | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00027698879 |
| 861 | Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00013543212 |
| 1,247 | Don't be lazy, be consistent: Postgres-R, A new way to implement Database Replication | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00011500006 |
| 3,921 | Evaluation of Remote Backup Algorithms for Transaction Processing Systems | 1992 | SIGMOD | 7.0163985e-05 |
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