Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?
Summary: Proves latency-optimal, single-round causal read-only transactions impose inherent write overhead growing linearly with clients. Contrarian adds a communication round while avoiding this cost, often improving both throughput and latency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Diego Didona (EPFL)
- 2. Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL)
- 3. Jingjing Wang (EPFL)
- 4. Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL; University of Sydney)
BibTeX Citation
@article{didona_vldb18,
title = {{Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?}},
author = {Didona, Diego and Guerraoui, Rachid and Wang, Jingjing and Zwaenepoel, Willy},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {11},
pages = {1618--1632},
doi = {10.14778/3236187.3236210},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3236187.3236210},
year = {2018}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,775 | SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions | 2019 | VLDB | 9.7870611e-05 |
| 3,418 | Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB | 2019 | SIGMOD | 7.429422e-05 |
| 3,696 | Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions | 2019 | VLDB | 7.1905677e-05 |
| 5,324 | Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.2649486e-05 |
| 9,857 | NOC-NOC: Towards Performance-optimal Distributed Transactions | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.2079113e-05 |
| 10,820 | VerIso: Verifiable Isolation Guarantees for Database Transactions | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00037333356 |
| 83 | H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00036185259 |
| 480 | Nonblocking Commit Protocols | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00017789222 |
| 845 | Spanner: Becoming a SQL System | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00013660379 |
| 1,850 | Bolt-on Causal Consistency | 2013 | SIGMOD | 9.6167827e-05 |
| 4,016 | TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.9530596e-05 |
| 4,319 | Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores | 2015 | SIGMOD | 6.7630901e-05 |
| 8,401 | Ambry: LinkedIn's Scalable Geo-Distributed Object Store | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.4331587e-05 |
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