Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation
Summary: Cornus redesigns 2PC for storage-disaggregated cloud DBMSs, exploiting an atomic compare-and-swap primitive in shared storage to eliminate coordinator-driven eager log writes and shorten the commit critical path. Enables non-blocking progress on coordinator failure and shows up to 1.9× commit-latency reduction on Azure Blob and Redis. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zhihan Guo (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Xinyu Zeng (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Kan Wu (University of Wisconsin)
- 4. Wuh-Chwen Hwang (University of Wisconsin)
- 5. Ziwei Ren (University of Wisconsin)
- 6. Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin)
- 7. Mahesh Balakrishnan (Confluent)
- 8. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{guo_vldb23,
title = {{Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation}},
author = {Guo, Zhihan and Zeng, Xinyu and Wu, Kan and Hwang, Wuh-Chwen and Ren, Ziwei and Yu, Xiangyao and Balakrishnan, Mahesh and Bernstein, Philip A.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
pages = {379--392},
doi = {10.14778/3565816.3565837},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3565816.3565837},
year = {2023}
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Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,418 | PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases | 2024 | VLDB | 5.8819368e-05 |
| 9,736 | Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators | 2024 | VLDB | 5.227679e-05 |
| 9,896 | VeriTxn: Verifiable Transactions for Cloud-Native Databases with Storage Disaggregation | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.1997534e-05 |
| 10,321 | Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,688 | CloudJump II: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Shared Storage | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,814 | Dandelion: Smaller Clusters, Bigger Speeds—Distributed Transactions Redefined | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,889 | Concurrency Control as a Service | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,070 | Disaggregation: A New Architecture for Cloud Databases | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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