Taurus: Lightweight Parallel Logging for In-Memory Database Management Systems

Summary: Taurus: lightweight parallel log scheme for in-memory DBMS using multiple streams and vector LSNs to encode dependencies in data and command logging. Delivers up to 9.9x data and 2.9x command speedups and up to 22.9x/75.6x faster recovery, beating prior parallel logging on NVMe/HDD. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12372
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.8808246e-05
Overall Rank: 6,966 | 51.54%
DOI: 10.14778/3425879.3425889

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,312	The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines	2024	VLDB	5.5734224e-05
7,077	Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions	2022	SIGMOD	4.8425226e-05
8,119	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	4.5809563e-05
8,258	Index Checkpoints for Instant Recovery in In-Memory Database Systems	2022	VLDB	4.5487249e-05
10,493	Moving on From Group Commit: Autonomous Commit Enables High Throughput and Low Latency on NVMe SSDs	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,583	Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,933	TimeCloth: Fast Point-in-Time Database Recovery in The Cloud	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,255	R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.0014279444
50	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00067394827
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
289	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.00028938503
635	Staring into the Abyss: An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores	2015	VLDB	0.00018879031
763	FOEDUS: OLTP Engine for a Thousand Cores and NVRAM	2015	SIGMOD	0.00017025851
792	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.0001661112
952	Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015103873
1,373	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012309902
1,842	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010345337
2,626	NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems	2015	VLDB	8.4273618e-05
2,646	REWIND: Recovery Write-Ahead System for In-Memory Non-Volatile Data-Structures	2015	VLDB	8.3829289e-05
3,374	Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database	2019	VLDB	7.1635315e-05
3,782	Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases	2016	SIGMOD	6.7722614e-05
4,519	Controlled Lock Violation	2013	SIGMOD	6.1176534e-05
5,554	Fast Failure Recovery for Main-Memory DBMSs on Multicores	2017	SIGMOD	5.4390216e-05
6,592	Scalable Database Logging for Multicores	2018	VLDB	5.0000872e-05
7,160	Border-Collie: A Wait-free, Read-optimal Algorithm for Database Logging on Multicore Hardware	2019	SIGMOD	4.8140054e-05

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6,592	Scalable Database Logging for Multicores	2018	VLDB	5.0000872e-05
5,554	Fast Failure Recovery for Main-Memory DBMSs on Multicores	2017	SIGMOD	5.4390216e-05
792	Scalable Logging through Emerging Non-Volatile Memory	2014	VLDB	0.0001661112
8,119	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	4.5809563e-05
1,842	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010345337
5,374	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	5.5424901e-05
1,373	Aether: A Scalable Approach to Logging	2010	VLDB	0.00012309902
4,019	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	6.5238856e-05
3,782	Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases	2016	SIGMOD	6.7722614e-05
6,348	Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud	2023	VLDB	5.1019557e-05