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CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

Summary: Global OLTP, geo-distributed SQL with strong consistency and high availability via replication and automatic recovery. Novel geo-distributed transaction model on commodity hardware; scalable distributed SQL layer with standard SQL interface, benchmarked. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5895
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
0.00025750338
Overall Rank
363 | 97.48%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386134

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
486 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 0.00022039625
1,614 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011137963
2,264 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 9.1587362e-05
2,693 Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 8.2845883e-05
3,011 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store 2021 SIGMOD 7.716566e-05
3,641 OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System 2022 VLDB 6.8877808e-05
4,044 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 6.5030191e-05
4,812 Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications 2021 SIGMOD 5.8997906e-05
4,895 Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization 2021 VLDB 5.8467977e-05
4,999 Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans 2024 SIGMOD 5.7638722e-05
5,234 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 5.609287e-05
5,245 QED: A Powerful Query Equivalence Decider for SQL 2024 VLDB 5.6017846e-05
5,414 Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation 2022 SIGMOD 5.5189294e-05
5,473 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 5.4886728e-05
5,579 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 5.4224124e-05
5,618 RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store 2021 VLDB 5.4081479e-05
5,852 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 5.2987165e-05
5,970 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.2467448e-05
6,101 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 5.206206e-05
6,251 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.1319265e-05
6,344 Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud 2023 VLDB 5.0970986e-05
6,454 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 5.0510162e-05
7,030 R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System 2025 VLDB 4.8518029e-05
7,168 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.8073922e-05
7,306 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 4.7626702e-05
7,492 Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks 2023 VLDB 4.7135369e-05
7,494 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 4.7135369e-05
7,585 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 4.7014496e-05
7,684 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 4.6754482e-05
7,695 GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent and Light-Coordinated OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database 2023 SIGMOD 4.6708357e-05
7,755 Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle 2024 VLDB 4.6555249e-05
8,099 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 4.58218e-05
8,273 Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing 2025 SIGMOD 4.5392079e-05
8,389 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 4.5248654e-05
8,468 STARRY: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 4.4994768e-05
8,486 ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores 2023 VLDB 4.4955142e-05
8,519 The LAW theorem: Local Reads and Linearizable Asynchronous Replication 2025 VLDB 4.4893996e-05
8,898 HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation 2025 SIGMOD 4.4229886e-05
9,069 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 4.3983078e-05
9,241 OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data 2025 VLDB 4.3648789e-05
9,322 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 4.351469e-05
9,554 Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases 2025 VLDB 4.3212967e-05
9,602 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 4.3136057e-05
9,638 CDSBen: Benchmarking the Performance of Storage Services in Cloud-native Database System at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 4.3068069e-05
9,903 TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads 2023 VLDB 4.2539423e-05
9,957 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 4.2323889e-05
9,986 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
9,997 Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases 2026 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
10,025 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,030 Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
35 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00076209479
54 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.0006582344
122 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.0004532783
136 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00042409816
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040580118
348 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00026473778
371 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00025382677
883 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00015581085
900 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015466804
956 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00015068342
1,008 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014663067
1,091 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00014133147
1,985 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.8619045e-05
2,008 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8120677e-05
2,358 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 8.9675888e-05
2,820 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.0655916e-05
3,006 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 7.7285127e-05
3,041 Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 7.6670566e-05
3,650 Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions 2014 VLDB 6.8746996e-05
3,654 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 6.87251e-05
3,763 DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications 2018 SIGMOD 6.7762489e-05
3,997 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 6.5452671e-05
4,034 Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 2013 VLDB 6.5112899e-05
4,546 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 6.0909987e-05
4,771 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 5.928282e-05
7,574 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 4.7033825e-05
7,575 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 4.7033825e-05
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