Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks

Summary: Shows RDMA shifts HA replication’s bottleneck from network to CPU, making computation-redundant active-passive/active-active schemes suboptimal. Active-Memory Replication uses RDMA undo logging to eliminate redundant execution while preserving correctness and availability, achieving up to 2× speedup. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h6a71f8da8b92dc3d
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 7.4716945e-05
Overall Rank: 3,271 | 78.02%
DOI: 10.14778/3342263.3342639
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Authors

1. Erfan Zamanian (Brown University)
2. Xiangyao Yu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4. Tim Kraska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zamanian_vldb19,
        title = {{Rethinking Database High Availability with RDMA Networks}},
        author = {Zamanian, Erfan and Yu, Xiangyao and Stonebraker, Michael and Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1637--1650},
        doi = {10.14778/3342263.3342639},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3342263.3342639},
        year = {2019}
}

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4,416	Strong consistency is not hard to get: Two-Phase Locking and Two-Phase Commit on Thousands of Cores	2019	VLDB	6.6067888e-05
4,946	CXL and the Return of Scale-Up Database Engines	2024	VLDB	6.3412158e-05
5,320	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.1813707e-05
6,537	C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up	2023	VLDB	5.7511899e-05
6,890	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.652433e-05
7,179	CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA	2021	SIGMOD	5.5908448e-05
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7,755	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	5.4572273e-05
8,163	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	5.3854685e-05
9,834	AMNES: Accelerating the computation of data correlation using FPGAs	2023	VLDB	5.1225987e-05
10,228	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	5.054828e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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70	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00037851432
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945	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012933247
1,339	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.0001097043
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3,073	Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities	2010	VLDB	7.6774646e-05
4,037	Scalable Replay-Based Replication For Fast Databases	2017	VLDB	6.8359601e-05
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5,320	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.1813707e-05

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