DAX: A Widely Distributed Multi-tenant Storage Service for DBMS Hosting

Summary: Introduces DAX, a distributed, multi-tenant storage service for hosting DBMSs. Uses multi-master replication with Dynamo-style flexible consistency to select per-operation strong or weak consistency, enabling cross-data-center scalability and up to 4× TPCC gains over baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10880
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,290 | 15.68%
DOI: 10.14778/2535574.2535577

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Authors

1. Rui Liu (University of Waterloo)
2. Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo)
3. Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{liu_vldb13,
        title = {{DAX: A Widely Distributed Multi-tenant Storage Service for DBMS Hosting}},
        author = {Liu, Rui and Aboulnaga, Ashraf and Salem, Kenneth},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {4},
        pages = {253--264},
        doi = {10.14778/2535574.2535577},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2535574.2535577},
        year = {2013}
}

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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
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
144	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029554682
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002863588
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
662	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015176173
902	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013328979
1,267	Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore	2011	VLDB	0.0001140641
1,593	F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business	2012	SIGMOD	0.00010252961
2,665	Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums	2012	VLDB	8.280143e-05
5,065	Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores	2012	VLDB	6.3775656e-05

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