LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud

Summary: LogBase uses log-only storage to eliminate write amplification from separating WALs and application data, enabling scalable cloud deployment and rapid recovery. In-memory multiversion indexes provide efficient cached access and cross-record transactions for write-heavy workloads. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10528
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 8.1044134e-05
Overall Rank: 2,805 | 80.76%
DOI: 10.14778/2336664.2336674

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hoang Tam Vo (National University of Singapore)
2. Sheng Wang (National University of Singapore)
3. Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)
4. Gang Chen (Zhejiang University)
5. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@article{vo_vldb12,
        title = {{LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud}},
        author = {Vo, Hoang Tam and Wang, Sheng and Agrawal, Divyakant and Chen, Gang and Ooi, Beng Chin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1004--1015},
        doi = {10.14778/2336664.2336674},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2336664.2336674},
        year = {2012}
}

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472	Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB	2017	CIDR	0.000179044
1,347	X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011073571
3,226	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	7.6231159e-05
3,517	LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses	2017	SIGMOD	7.3523997e-05
3,808	Making Updates Disk-I/O Friendly Using SSDs	2013	VLDB	7.1083217e-05
4,319	Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores	2015	SIGMOD	6.7630901e-05
4,888	Enabling Low Tail Latency on Multicore Key-Value Stores	2020	VLDB	6.4609843e-05
5,655	Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion	2021	SIGMOD	6.1321148e-05
6,512	FineLine: Log-structured Transactional Storage and Recovery	2018	VLDB	5.8563029e-05
8,304	Lightweight Indexing of Observational Data in Log-Structured Storage	2014	VLDB	5.4571356e-05
9,034	Fast and Adaptive Indexing of Multi-Dimensional Observational Data	2016	VLDB	5.3274671e-05
9,467	Sphinx: A Succinct Perfect Hash Index for x86	2025	VLDB	5.2634238e-05
10,688	CloudJump II: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Shared Storage	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
126	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00030779127
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315
144	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029554682
245	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023458287
275	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022630189
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
681	Access Methods For Multiversion Data	1989	SIGMOD	0.0001502579
807	Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method	1998	VLDB	0.00013884448
1,632	Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique	2003	VLDB	0.0001016847
2,411	Towards Elastic Transactional Cloud Storage with Range Query Support	2010	VLDB	8.6126258e-05

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