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)
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Authors
- 1. Fusheng Han (Ant Financial)
- 2. Hao Liu (Ant Financial)
- 3. Bin Chen (Ant Financial)
- 4. Debin Jia (Ant Financial)
- 5. Jianfeng Zhou (Ant Financial)
- 6. Xuwang Teng (Ant Financial)
- 7. Chuanhui Yang (Ant Financial)
- 8. Huafeng Xi (Ant Financial)
- 9. Wei Tian (Ant Financial)
- 10. Shuning Tao (Ant Financial)
- 11. Sen Wang (Ant Financial)
- 12. Quanqing Xu (Ant Financial)
- 13. Zhenkun Yang (Ant Financial)
BibTeX Citation
@article{han_vldb24,
title = {{PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases}},
author = {Han, Fusheng and Liu, Hao and Chen, Bin and Jia, Debin and Zhou, Jianfeng and Teng, Xuwang and Yang, Chuanhui and Xi, Huafeng and Tian, Wei and Tao, Shuning and Wang, Sen and Xu, Quanqing and Yang, Zhenkun},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {12},
pages = {3745--3758},
doi = {10.14778/3685800.3685803},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3685800.3685803},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,383 | LSM-Raft: Optimizing Raft for LSM-tree Store | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,840 | Migration-Free Elastic Storage of Time Series in Apache IoTDB | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,956 | CoLA: Model Collaboration for Log-based Anomaly Detection | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00037333356 |
| 208 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00024968157 |
| 604 | Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.0001584774 |
| 2,469 | FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.5354086e-05 |
| 2,918 | OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System | 2022 | VLDB | 7.9649716e-05 |
| 3,683 | Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB | 2022 | SIGMOD | 7.2035148e-05 |
| 5,705 | Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation | 2023 | VLDB | 6.1145567e-05 |
| 9,530 | OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster | 2023 | VLDB | 5.2543048e-05 |
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