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Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration

Summary: Albatross enables low-cost live migration of tenant databases in shared-storage cloud OLTP systems by migrating cache and active-transaction state. It preserves serializability and failure correctness, achieving zero aborts, negligible overhead, and ~300 ms unavailability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h2c6cafa8f23b4458
Venue
VLDB
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00013220089
Overall Rank
893 | 94.00%
DOI
10.14778/2002974.2002977

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BibTeX Citation

@article{das_vldb11,
        title = {{Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration}},
        author = {Das, Sudipto and Nishimura, Shoji and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {8},
        pages = {494--505},
        doi = {10.14778/2002974.2002977},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2002974.2002977},
        year = {2011}
}

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