Scalable, Near-Zero Loss Disaster Recovery for Distributed Data Stores

Summary: Slogger: near-zero-loss DR for linearizable stores via continuous backup, lag, async log replication, clocks, batching, and a watermark. Add-on deployable; tested on LogCabin, delivering 14.2 ms loss window and ~50% improvement over snapshots, with scalable failover. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12241
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.1650158e-05
Overall Rank: 10,064 | 30.96%
DOI: 10.14778/3397230.3397239

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Authors

1. Ahmed Alquraan (University of Waterloo)
2. Alex Kogan (Oracle)
3. Virendra J. Marathe (Oracle)
4. Samer Al-Kiswany (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{alquraan_vldb20,
        title = {{Scalable, Near-Zero Loss Disaster Recovery for Distributed Data Stores}},
        author = {Alquraan, Ahmed and Kogan, Alex and Marathe, Virendra J. and Al-Kiswany, Samer},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1429--1442},
        doi = {10.14778/3397230.3397239},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3397230.3397239},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,686	TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System	2024	VLDB	5.5676271e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 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
2,965	An Efficient and Flexible Method for Archiving a Data Base	1993	SIGMOD	7.9154798e-05
7,468	High Speed On-line Backup When Using Logical Log Operations	2000	SIGMOD	5.6101375e-05

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