Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB
Summary: Cluster-wide causal consistency for MongoDB implemented with a hybrid logical clock and signed time ranges. A practical, low-overhead integration at scale - secure against operator and untrusted-client attacks, with forward progress during idle partitions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Misha Tyulenev (MongoDB)
- 2. Andy Schwerin (MongoDB)
- 3. Asya Kamsky (MongoDB)
- 4. Randolph Tan (MongoDB)
- 5. Alyson Cabral (MongoDB)
- 6. Jack Mulrow (MongoDB)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{tyulenev_sigmod19,
title = {{Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB}},
author = {Tyulenev, Misha and Schwerin, Andy and Kamsky, Asya and Tan, Randolph and Cabral, Alyson and Mulrow, Jack},
series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3299869.3314049},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3314049},
year = {2019}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 186 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00026001543 |
| 4,599 | Tunable Consistency in MongoDB | 2019 | VLDB | 6.4971174e-05 |
| 5,382 | Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud | 2023 | VLDB | 6.138171e-05 |
| 7,460 | Adapting TPC-C Benchmark to Measure Performance of Multi-Document Transactions in MongoDB | 2019 | VLDB | 5.50667e-05 |
| 7,646 | eXtreme Modelling in Practice | 2020 | VLDB | 5.4613574e-05 |
| 7,873 | Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle | 2024 | VLDB | 5.4196475e-05 |
| 11,437 | Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 11,706 | CausalMesh: A Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing | 2024 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 12,005 | Efficiently Supporting Adaptive Multi-Level Serializability Models in Distributed Database Systems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
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| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00043937456 |
| 1,192 | Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00011555425 |
| 1,701 | Bolt-on Causal Consistency | 2013 | SIGMOD | 9.8192785e-05 |
| 2,721 | Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums | 2012 | VLDB | 8.0777028e-05 |
| 4,352 | Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe? | 2018 | VLDB | 6.6337597e-05 |
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