PaxosStore: High-availability Storage Made Practical in WeChat

Summary: PaxosStore provides high-availability for a multi-model storage stack via a Paxos-based middleware deployed in WeChat. It introduces PaxosLog and a layered protocol stack to translate programming-level reads/writes into storage-level consensus, with practical Paxos optimizations for fault-tolerance and scale. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11643
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 9.8395185e-05
Overall Rank: 1,749 | 88.01%
DOI: 10.14778/3137765.3137771

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Authors

1. Jianjun Zheng (Tencent)
2. Qian Lin (National University of Singapore; Tencent)
3. Jiatao Xu (Tencent)
4. Cheng Wei (Tencent)
5. Chuwei Zeng (Tencent)
6. Pingan Yang (Tencent)
7. Yunfan Zhang (Tencent)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zheng_vldb17,
        title = {{PaxosStore: High-availability Storage Made Practical in WeChat}},
        author = {Zheng, Jianjun and Lin, Qian and Xu, Jiatao and Wei, Cheng and Zeng, Chuwei and Yang, Pingan and Zhang, Yunfan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1730--1743},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137771},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137771},
        year = {2017}
}

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1,283	PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database	2018	VLDB	0.00011337934
1,559	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010362456
4,741	PigPaxos: Devouring the Communication Bottlenecks in Distributed Consensus	2021	SIGMOD	6.5269811e-05
4,996	TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads	2022	VLDB	6.4081254e-05
5,012	A Comparative Study of Secondary Indexing Techniques in LSM-based NoSQL Databases	2018	SIGMOD	6.4015289e-05
6,296	Dissecting the Performance of Strongly-Consistent Replication Protocols	2019	SIGMOD	5.922816e-05
8,239	In-Network Leaderless Replication for Distributed Data Stores	2022	VLDB	5.4595803e-05
10,039	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	5.1723558e-05
10,467	LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,874	HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
144	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029554682
275	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022630189
400	Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process	1983	PODS	0.00019173482
1,171	Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011826434
1,606	Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing	2014	VLDB	0.00010228576
1,629	Positional Update Handling in Column Stores	2010	SIGMOD	0.00010184131

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