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Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms

Summary: Zephyr enables live migration of tenants in shared-nothing transactional DBs for elastic clouds. On-demand pull + asynchronous push, minimal sync, ACID guarantees with no downtime and low data transfer; prototype shows few aborts and modest latency impact. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4453
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00014442062
Overall Rank
741 | 94.92%
DOI
10.1145/1989323.1989356

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{elmore_sigmod11,
        title = {{Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms}},
        author = {Elmore, Aaron J. and Das, Sudipto and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989356},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989356},
        year = {2011}
}

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