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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
0.00024561689
Overall Rank
219 | 98.48%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386134

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301 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 0.00022033345
1,197 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011803545
1,603 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 0.00010315993
1,958 Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 9.4923188e-05
2,536 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store 2021 SIGMOD 8.5168539e-05
2,960 OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System 2022 VLDB 7.9703183e-05
3,628 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 7.314945e-05
4,097 Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications 2021 SIGMOD 6.967727e-05
4,474 Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans 2024 SIGMOD 6.739061e-05
4,497 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 6.7251976e-05
4,780 Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization 2021 VLDB 6.579664e-05
4,947 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 6.4972552e-05
5,144 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.4132576e-05
5,203 RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store 2021 VLDB 6.388067e-05
5,266 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.3619287e-05
5,438 Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation 2022 SIGMOD 6.2889071e-05
5,581 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 6.2269951e-05
5,594 QED: A Powerful Query Equivalence Decider for SQL 2024 VLDB 6.222491e-05
5,623 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 6.2092572e-05
5,663 Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud 2023 VLDB 6.1963979e-05
6,088 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 6.0432068e-05
6,325 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.9730345e-05
6,547 R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System 2025 VLDB 5.9030514e-05
6,671 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.8668894e-05
7,134 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 5.749141e-05
7,170 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 5.7405587e-05
7,278 GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent and Light-Coordinated OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database 2023 SIGMOD 5.7114223e-05
7,557 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.6538569e-05
7,578 Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle 2024 VLDB 5.6492852e-05
7,748 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.611297e-05
7,799 Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks 2023 VLDB 5.6035684e-05
7,800 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 5.6035684e-05
8,254 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 5.5219314e-05
8,279 STARRY: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.5170345e-05
8,285 ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores 2023 VLDB 5.5155448e-05
8,386 Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing 2025 SIGMOD 5.4958075e-05
8,609 The LAW theorem: Local Reads and Linearizable Asynchronous Replication 2025 VLDB 5.4598872e-05
8,895 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 5.4131079e-05
8,923 HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation 2025 SIGMOD 5.4076395e-05
9,250 OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data 2025 VLDB 5.3572577e-05
9,327 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 5.3449422e-05
9,548 Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases 2025 VLDB 5.316206e-05
9,590 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.3086438e-05
9,623 CDSBen: Benchmarking the Performance of Storage Services in Cloud-native Database System at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.3018477e-05
9,903 TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.2464179e-05
9,957 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 5.2222605e-05
9,986 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 5.1725247e-05
9,997 Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases 2026 CIDR 5.1725247e-05
10,025 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-05
10,030 Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP 2026 SIGMOD 5.1725247e-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
14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00063341086
46 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.0004507937
57 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040347584
77 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00037304543
82 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036499215
238 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024001206
244 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023702075
618 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015831882
724 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00014710237
841 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.0001372453
860 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013592696
1,544 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010469215
1,747 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.9262521e-05
1,832 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.7501698e-05
2,027 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.3739515e-05
2,327 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 8.8247107e-05
2,399 Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.7111888e-05
2,475 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.6057407e-05
3,189 Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions 2014 VLDB 7.7249539e-05
3,376 DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications 2018 SIGMOD 7.5339756e-05
3,384 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.5295883e-05
3,465 Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 2013 VLDB 7.4682762e-05
3,835 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 7.1416367e-05
3,890 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 7.103247e-05
4,292 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.8492444e-05
7,674 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.6273708e-05
7,675 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.6273708e-05
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