Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems

Summary: Caerus introduces a deterministic ordering protocol that globally orders geo-distributed transactions in one WAN round trip to their data-item primaries. Its regional partial-sequence merging enables serializable commits with substantially lower latency than prior geo-replicated systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13901
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.7506468e-05
Overall Rank: 6,867 | 52.89%
DOI: 10.14778/3632093.3632109

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Authors

1. Joshua Hildred (University of Waterloo)
2. Michael Abebe (University of Waterloo)
3. Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hildred_vldb24,
        title = {{Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems}},
        author = {Hildred, Joshua and Abebe, Michael and Daudjee, Khuzaima},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {3},
        pages = {469--482},
        doi = {10.14778/3632093.3632109},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3632093.3632109},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,517	Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads?	2025	SIGMOD	5.2566631e-05
9,692	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
10,325	Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,577	FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,839	K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,889	Concurrency Control as a Service	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
657	Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding	2019	SIGMOD	0.00015236213
766	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.0001420984
1,570	Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010334131
1,775	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions	2019	VLDB	9.7870611e-05
1,843	ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric	2020	VLDB	9.6340278e-05
2,497	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.5020762e-05
2,765	An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems	2014	VLDB	8.1530951e-05
3,238	SharPer: Sharding Permissioned Blockchains Over Network Clusters	2021	SIGMOD	7.6084417e-05
3,419	DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications	2018	SIGMOD	7.4285044e-05
3,683	Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB	2022	SIGMOD	7.2035148e-05
4,870	Optimistic Concurrency Control by Melding Trees	2011	VLDB	6.4709622e-05
5,324	Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale	2023	SIGMOD	6.2649486e-05
7,722	ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching	2020	SIGMOD	5.5586232e-05
8,418	Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture	2023	VLDB	5.4283265e-05

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