Madeus: Database Live Migration Middleware under Heavy Workloads for Cloud Environment

Summary: Pure middleware for live migration to alleviate hot spots under multitenant load. Introduces LSIR (lazy snapshot) enabling concurrent syncset propagation, transparent to the DBMS, delivering efficient live migration on PostgreSQL with TPC-W. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5024
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.8651891e-05
Overall Rank: 6,486 | 55.51%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2723458

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Authors

1. Takeshi Mishima (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
2. Yasuhiro Fujiwara (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mishima_sigmod15,
        title = {{Madeus: Database Live Migration Middleware under Heavy Workloads for Cloud Environment}},
        author = {Mishima, Takeshi and Fujiwara, Yasuhiro},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2723458},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2723458},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,049	MgCrab: Transaction Crabbing for Live Migration in Deterministic Database Systems	2019	VLDB	5.7177768e-05
7,791	BullFrog: Online Schema Evolution via Lazy Evaluation	2021	SIGMOD	5.5438714e-05
9,102	Asymmetric-Partition Replication for Highly Scalable Distributed Transaction Processing in Practice	2020	VLDB	5.3246805e-05
11,992	Scaling Locally Linear Embedding	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,538	Fast Algorithm for the Lasso based L1-Graph Construction	2017	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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
641	Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud	2011	CIDR	0.00015400863
741	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014442062
754	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.00014327706
902	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013328979
1,406	Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010866135
2,438	FAS - a Freshness-Sensitive Coordination Middleware for a Cluster of OLAP Components	2002	VLDB	8.57985e-05
4,868	RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems	2011	VLDB	6.4713322e-05
6,821	Serializable Snapshot Isolation for Replicated Databases in High-Update Scenarios	2011	VLDB	5.7631227e-05
12,535	Pangea: An Eager Database Replication Middleware guaranteeing Snapshot Isolation without Modification of Database Servers	2009	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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