Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice

Summary: Characterizes the gap between academic replication theory and industrial practice in performance, availability, and administration, using open-source, academic, and Fortune 500 case studies. Proposes academia- and industry-specific agendas to bridge this gap within 5–10 years. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4091
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00010866135
Overall Rank: 1,406 | 90.36%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376691

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Authors

1. Emmanuel Cecchet (EPFL)
2. George Candea (Aster Data; EPFL)
3. Anastasia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University; EPFL)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cecchet_sigmod08,
        title = {{Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice}},
        author = {Cecchet, Emmanuel and Candea, George and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376691},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376691},
        year = {2008}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
1,267	Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore	2011	VLDB	0.0001140641
1,545	Blockchain Meets Database: Design and Implementation of a Blockchain Relational Database	2019	VLDB	0.00010408717
1,700	Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database	2020	VLDB	9.9726588e-05
2,922	Parallel Replication across Formats in SAP HANA for Scaling Out Mixed OLTP/OLAP Workloads	2017	VLDB	7.9593579e-05
2,972	F1 Lightning: HTAP as a Service	2020	VLDB	7.9114157e-05
3,026	Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities	2010	VLDB	7.8384865e-05
3,243	Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks	2019	VLDB	7.6051655e-05
6,486	Madeus: Database Live Migration Middleware under Heavy Workloads for Cloud Environment	2015	SIGMOD	5.8651891e-05
6,821	Serializable Snapshot Isolation for Replicated Databases in High-Update Scenarios	2011	VLDB	5.7631227e-05
7,767	Epoxy: ACID Transactions Across Diverse Data Stores	2023	VLDB	5.5485804e-05
11,656	Attaining Workload Scalability and Strong Consistency for Replicated Databases with Hihooi	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,398	Resiliency-Aware Data Management	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,535	Pangea: An Eager Database Replication Middleware guaranteeing Snapshot Isolation without Modification of Database Servers	2009	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
164	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027698879
754	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.00014327706
1,247	Don't be lazy, be consistent: Postgres-R, A new way to implement Database Replication	2000	VLDB	0.00011500006
6,474	Telcordia's Database Reconciliation and Data Quality Analysis Tool	2000	VLDB	5.8697885e-05

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