PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases

Summary: PALF is a Paxos-backed append-only replicated WAL co-designed with the database to expose DB-specific primitives (transaction processing, restore, physical standby) instead of a generic log layer. Shows much higher throughput and lower latency than common consensus-based logs; production-deployed in OceanBase 4.0 and open-sourced. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13580
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.1368564e-05
Overall Rank: 6,252 | 56.51%
DOI: 10.14778/3685800.3685803

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10,713	CoLA: Model Collaboration for Log-based Anomaly Detection	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
390	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024607299
918	Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	0.00015350181
3,008	FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store	2021	SIGMOD	7.7239608e-05
3,628	OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System	2022	VLDB	6.9031596e-05
4,153	Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB	2022	SIGMOD	6.4045807e-05
5,966	Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	5.2517881e-05
9,958	OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster	2023	VLDB	4.2364477e-05

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