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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
- 13182
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 5.0970986e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,344 | 55.91%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3611540.3611542
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank |
Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 7,168 |
PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory |
2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.8073922e-05 |
| 7,866 |
Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.6282779e-05 |
| 8,099 |
GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.58218e-05 |
| 8,389 |
Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods |
2025 |
CIDR |
4.5248654e-05 |
| 8,954 |
Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.4189512e-05 |
| 10,644 |
Concurrency Control as a Service |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,658 |
Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,679 |
Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,788 |
From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB's Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,793 |
AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
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