Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores

Summary: Lower-bound: commit latency across two datacenters ≥ RTT, clarifying WAN bottlenecks for serializable transactions. Helios: cross-datacenter logs exchanged to decide commit points early, achieving near-optimal latency in practice. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4949
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.9084917e-05
Overall Rank: 4,809 | 66.55%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2723729

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390	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024607299
2,373	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions	2019	VLDB	8.9476269e-05
3,799	DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications	2018	SIGMOD	6.7589543e-05
4,601	Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?	2018	VLDB	6.0572606e-05
5,768	Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases	2021	VLDB	5.3333911e-05
7,666	How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit?	2017	PODS	4.6846408e-05
10,870	PolyBase: Adapting to Data Affinity Changes in Geo-Replicated Database via Row-Level Consensus-Group Affiliation Re-Assignment	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,891	Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems	2024	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,842	DB-Risk: The Game of Global Database Placement	2016	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,849	The Challenges of Global-scale Data Management	2016	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083894938
53	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00066144767
122	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00045316749
189	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00035925334
521	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00021139547
590	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.000195762
1,028	Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00014584518
1,121	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013856011
1,749	Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation	2005	SIGMOD	0.00010684686
2,016	Bolt-on Causal Consistency	2013	SIGMOD	9.789465e-05
2,207	Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks	1995	SIGMOD	9.2905883e-05
2,689	LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	8.2942515e-05
2,834	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.0458206e-05
5,357	Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores	2012	VLDB	5.5505953e-05
12,022	Message Futures: Fast Commitment of Transactions in Multi-datacenter Environments	2013	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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