Fast Database Restarts at Facebook

Summary: Shared memory decouples memory state from process lifetime in Scuba, enabling fast, weekly upgrades while preserving in-memory data. Recovery is 2–3 minutes per server with no memory-footprint increase, boosting availability and making the approach applicable to other in-memory databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4859
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.6803959e-05
Overall Rank: 5,120 | 64.39%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2595642

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,613	Realtime Data Processing at Facebook	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011140777
4,903	Persistent Memory Hash Indexes: An Experimental Evaluation	2021	VLDB	5.8399968e-05
8,839	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	4.4388652e-05
9,111	Meta's Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform	2022	VLDB	4.3942367e-05
11,127	The Case for DBMS Live Patching	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,354	Live Patching Database Management Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
310	The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later	2012	VLDB	0.00028132402
858	Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth	2012	SIGMOD	0.000158756
1,470	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.00011833779
1,487	Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook	2013	VLDB	0.00011701099

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