Techniques and Efficiencies from Building a Real-Time DBMS

Summary: Experience report on Aerospike’s decade-long optimization for millisecond SLAs, predictable performance, strong consistency, and near-zero downtime at massive scale. Distinctive techniques span smart-client routing, two-copy replication, memory/flash tiering, elastic clustering, and NUMA-aware execution. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13384
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,467 | 21.33%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611556

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Authors

1. V. Srinivasan (Aerospike)
2. Andrew Gooding (Aerospike)
3. Sunil Sayyaparaju (Aerospike)
4. Thomas Lopatic (Aerospike)
5. Kevin Porter (Aerospike)
6. Ashish Shinde (Aerospike)
7. B. Narendran (Aerospike)

BibTeX Citation

@article{srinivasan_vldb23,
        title = {{Techniques and Efficiencies from Building a Real-Time DBMS}},
        author = {Srinivasan, V. and Gooding, Andrew and Sayyaparaju, Sunil and Lopatic, Thomas and Porter, Kevin and Shinde, Ashish and Narendran, B.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3676--3688},
        doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611556},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611556},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,687	Asynchronous Replication Strategies for a Real-Time DBMS	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
208	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024968157
5,449	Aerospike: Architecture of a Real-Time Operational DBMS	2016	VLDB	6.2144811e-05
8,444	Citrusleaf: A Real-Time NoSQL DB which Preserves ACID	2011	VLDB	5.4242325e-05

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