Achieving High Throughput and Elasticity in a Larger-than-Memory Store
Summary: Shadowfax—a distributed KVS spanning DRAM, SSDs, and cloud blob storage—achieves 130 Mops/s per VM on commodity Azure hardware. Its elastic reconfiguration avoids server-side key ownership checks and cross-core coordination, enabling 17 s load shifts and 930 Mops/s across 12 nodes (8× Seastar+memcached). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Chinmay Kulkarni (University of Utah)
- 2. Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft)
- 3. Ryan Stutsman (University of Utah)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kulkarni_vldb21,
title = {{Achieving High Throughput and Elasticity in a Larger-than-Memory Store}},
author = {Kulkarni, Chinmay and Chandramouli, Badrish and Stutsman, Ryan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {8},
pages = {1427--1440},
doi = {10.14778/3457390.3457406},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3457390.3457406},
year = {2021}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,677 | Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache | 2022 | VLDB | 6.5698961e-05 |
| 7,717 | Asynchronous Prefix Recoverability for Fast Distributed Stores | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5605526e-05 |
| 8,375 | Serverless State Management Systems | 2024 | CIDR | 5.4391978e-05 |
| 10,574 | Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and Services | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00036185259 |
| 400 | Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process | 1983 | PODS | 0.00019173482 |
| 614 | Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00015720975 |
| 710 | Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00014715033 |
| 1,089 | High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy | 2015 | CIDR | 0.00012242396 |
| 2,407 | Squall: Fine-Grained Live Reconfiguration for Partitioned Main Memory Databases | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.6184333e-05 |
| 3,784 | Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy | 2015 | VLDB | 7.1268687e-05 |
| 4,030 | Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond | 2014 | SIGMOD | 6.9463933e-05 |
| 7,717 | Asynchronous Prefix Recoverability for Fast Distributed Stores | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.5605526e-05 |
| 7,973 | Concurrent Prefix Recovery: Performing CPR on a Database | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.5157734e-05 |
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