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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
5956
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
0.00024968157
Overall Rank
208 | 98.58%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386134

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{taft_sigmod20,
        title = {{CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database}},
        author = {Taft, Rebecca and Sharif, Irfan and Matei, Andrei and VanBenschoten, Nathan and Lewis, Jordan and Grieger, Tobias and Niemi, Kai and Woods, Andy and Birzin, Anne and Poss, Raphael and Bardea, Paul and Ranade, Amruta and Darnell, Ben and Gruneir, Bram and Jaffray, Justin and Zhang, Lucy and Mattis, Peter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386134},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386134},
        year = {2020}
}

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271 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 0.00022703024
1,213 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011646797
1,589 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 0.00010264469
1,948 Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 9.432395e-05
2,469 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store 2021 SIGMOD 8.5354086e-05
2,918 OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System 2022 VLDB 7.9649716e-05
3,683 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 7.2035148e-05
3,903 Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans 2024 SIGMOD 7.0304586e-05
4,156 Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications 2021 SIGMOD 6.86587e-05
4,544 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 6.6382612e-05
4,852 Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization 2021 VLDB 6.4793143e-05
4,996 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 6.4081254e-05
5,213 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.3143934e-05
5,262 RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook's Online TAO Data Store 2021 VLDB 6.2952027e-05
5,324 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.2649486e-05
5,353 QED: A Powerful Query Equivalence Decider for SQL 2024 VLDB 6.2519268e-05
5,487 Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation 2022 SIGMOD 6.2006149e-05
5,655 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 6.1321148e-05
5,705 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 6.1145567e-05
5,739 Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud 2023 VLDB 6.1036095e-05
6,174 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 5.9510389e-05
6,259 R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System 2025 VLDB 5.93967e-05
6,418 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.8819368e-05
6,770 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 5.7783709e-05
6,811 GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent and Light-Coordinated OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database 2023 SIGMOD 5.7658045e-05
6,916 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 5.7401967e-05
7,258 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 5.6614636e-05
7,427 Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing 2025 SIGMOD 5.620674e-05
7,686 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.5676271e-05
7,701 Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle 2024 VLDB 5.5650215e-05
7,873 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.5257163e-05
7,916 Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks 2023 VLDB 5.5181056e-05
7,917 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 5.5181056e-05
8,381 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 5.4377136e-05
8,406 ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores 2023 VLDB 5.4314245e-05
8,418 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.4283265e-05
8,726 The LAW theorem: Local Reads and Linearizable Asynchronous Replication 2025 VLDB 5.3766157e-05
9,021 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 5.3305499e-05
9,051 HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation 2025 SIGMOD 5.3251649e-05
9,227 Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction 2025 VLDB 5.3023217e-05
9,384 OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data 2025 VLDB 5.2755515e-05
9,465 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 5.2634238e-05
9,530 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 5.2543048e-05
9,692 Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases 2025 VLDB 5.2351259e-05
9,736 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.227679e-05
9,768 CDSBen: Benchmarking the Performance of Storage Services in Cloud-native Database System at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.2212078e-05
10,058 TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.1664022e-05
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10,144 Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases 2026 CIDR 5.093636e-05
10,218 Detecting Join Bugs in Database Engines via Join Implication Reasoning 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.0006312782
47 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00044503718
57 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040139242
73 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00037333356
83 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036185259
234 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023810722
245 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023458287
607 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015800238
733 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00014533437
845 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00013660379
887 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013403455
1,570 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010334131
1,775 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.7870611e-05
1,850 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.6167827e-05
2,052 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.251901e-05
2,363 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 8.6873235e-05
2,419 Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.6054486e-05
2,497 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.5020762e-05
3,218 Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions 2014 VLDB 7.6312132e-05
3,418 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.429422e-05
3,419 DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications 2018 SIGMOD 7.4285044e-05
3,484 Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 2013 VLDB 7.3716387e-05
3,696 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 7.1905677e-05
3,931 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 7.0093991e-05
4,319 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.7630901e-05
7,735 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.5560093e-05
7,736 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.5560093e-05
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