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Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud
Summary: Taurus MM: a shared-storage multi-master DB for cloud that minimizes network traffic with two innovations. A compact distributed clock providing vector-like snapshot support, and a hybrid page/row locking protocol that greatly reduces lock-request traffic; outperforms Aurora MM and CockroachDB on up to 8 masters.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13181
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 5.1019557e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,348 | 55.84%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3611540.3611542
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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| Rank |
Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 7,169 |
PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory |
2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.8120082e-05 |
| 7,876 |
Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.6298182e-05 |
| 8,095 |
GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.5865778e-05 |
| 8,390 |
Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods |
2025 |
CIDR |
4.5292077e-05 |
| 8,950 |
Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.4231907e-05 |
| 10,636 |
Concurrency Control as a Service |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,650 |
Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,671 |
Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,782 |
From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB's Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,787 |
AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.
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