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: 7.5552708e-05
Overall Rank: 3,173 | 78.74%
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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5,337	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.1613626e-05
6,548	C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up	2023	VLDB	5.7321729e-05
6,907	X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication	2022	SIGMOD	5.6338283e-05
7,191	CoRM: Compactable Remote Memory over RDMA	2021	SIGMOD	5.5736866e-05
7,470	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	5.5032592e-05
7,770	Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks	2023	VLDB	5.4391823e-05
8,179	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	5.3676622e-05
9,867	AMNES: Accelerating the computation of data correlation using FPGAs	2023	VLDB	5.1056602e-05
10,259	Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases	2024	CIDR	5.0381136e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040489652
70	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00037761637
80	H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System	2008	VLDB	0.00036267455
166	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027196717
928	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00013012601
1,349	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00010940559
1,434	Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010661815
2,512	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.3474334e-05
3,011	Query Fresh: Log Shipping on Steroids	2018	VLDB	7.7421635e-05
3,077	Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities	2010	VLDB	7.6584138e-05
4,040	Scalable Replay-Based Replication For Fast Databases	2017	VLDB	6.8229639e-05
4,988	RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems	2011	VLDB	6.3130049e-05
5,337	Chiller: Contention-centric Transaction Execution and Data Partitioning for Modern Networks	2020	SIGMOD	6.1613626e-05

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