MorphoSys: Automatic Physical Design Metamorphosis for Distributed Database Systems

Summary: MorphoSys automates the distributed physical design by optimizing placement, replication, and partitioning via a learned cost model. Adapts designs on the fly, maintaining efficiency with a concurrency control and update propagation scheme. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12238
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.1723632e-05
Overall Rank: 4,453 | 69.03%
DOI: 10.14778/3424573.3424578

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4,153	Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB	2022	SIGMOD	6.4045807e-05
5,842	Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale	2023	SIGMOD	5.3038084e-05
6,803	Proteus: Autonomous Adaptive Storage for Mixed Workloads	2022	SIGMOD	4.9224958e-05
6,902	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	4.8925595e-05
7,498	Dendrite: Bolt-on Adaptivity for Data Systems	2021	SIGMOD	4.7180617e-05
7,683	TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System	2024	VLDB	4.6799361e-05
7,697	GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent and Light-Coordinated OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database	2023	SIGMOD	4.6753193e-05
8,091	LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding	2022	VLDB	4.5885892e-05
10,230	Breaking the Isolation-Freshness Trade-off: Joint Adaptive Storage Optimization for HTAP Systems	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083894938
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
137	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00042342967
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
176	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00038197618
209	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00034468292
215	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.0003354907
289	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00028938503
340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
590	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.000195762
1,090	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001415654
1,092	E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00014135961
1,501	P-Store: An Elastic Database System with Predictive Provisioning	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011664869
1,700	Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010858865
2,004	X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing	2019	SIGMOD	9.811707e-05
2,047	Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database	2019	SIGMOD	9.6920209e-05
2,126	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.4887794e-05
2,373	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions	2019	VLDB	8.9476269e-05
2,548	An Evaluation of Distributed Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	8.5652459e-05
2,606	Design Continuums and the Path Toward Self-Designing Key-Value Stores that Know and Learn	2019	CIDR	8.4645832e-05
2,948	Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2015	SIGMOD	7.8341023e-05
3,005	Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas	2017	VLDB	7.7303579e-05
3,057	Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems	2016	SIGMOD	7.6417208e-05
3,659	Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna	2019	VLDB	6.8696023e-05
3,891	Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing	2017	VLDB	6.659442e-05
4,015	Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations	2015	VLDB	6.5272549e-05
4,035	Big Data in Capital Markets	2013	SIGMOD	6.509242e-05
4,727	STAR: Scaling Transactions through Asymmetric Replication	2019	VLDB	5.9690763e-05
5,118	AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins	2017	VLDB	5.6820984e-05
5,647	ConfluxDB: Multi-Master Replication for Partitioned Snapshot Isolation Databases	2014	VLDB	5.3917393e-05
7,715	Query Centric Partitioning and Allocation for Partially Replicated Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	4.6699261e-05

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