TimeCloth: Fast Point-in-Time Database Recovery in The Cloud

Summary: TimeCloth: fast point-in-time recovery in the cloud. Sublinear RTO via fast log filtering, parallel replay of non-conflicting logs, and log coalescing; lazy FUSE-based remote-table import with smart prefetch, deployed at Alibaba Cloud with average RTO reduction of 44%, up to 92%. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6790
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,933 | 23.95%
DOI: 10.1145/3626246.3653382

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3,523	ARIES/CSA: A Method for Database Recovery in Client-Server Architectures	1994	SIGMOD	7.0092495e-05
3,782	Adaptive Logging: Optimizing Logging and Recovery Costs in Distributed In-memory Databases	2016	SIGMOD	6.7722614e-05
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