Message Futures: Fast Commitment of Transactions in Multi-datacenter Environments
Summary: Message Futures: a strongly-consistent concurrency-control manager for geo-replicated datacenters that uses judicious, opportunistic message passing to allow many transactions to commit locally without wide-area coordination. Supports tunable per-datacenter priorities, achieving ~1 RTT commits for equal-priority sites and near-local latency for high-priority sites (validated experimentally). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Faisal Nawab (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 2. Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 3. Amr El Abbadi (University of California Santa Barbara)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{nawab_cidr13,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '13},
title = {{Message Futures: Fast Commitment of Transactions in Multi-datacenter Environments}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Nawab, Faisal and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El},
year = {2013}
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| 2,497 | Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit | 2013 | VLDB | 8.5020762e-05 |
| 3,419 | DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.4285044e-05 |
| 4,319 | Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores | 2015 | SIGMOD | 6.7630901e-05 |
| 12,050 | The Challenges of Global-scale Data Management | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 57 | Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00040139242 |
| 144 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00029554682 |
| 902 | Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00013328979 |
| 5,065 | Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores | 2012 | VLDB | 6.3775656e-05 |
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