R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications
Summary: R3 enables practical time travel for database-backed applications by recording concurrency at transaction granularity instead of fine-grained timing. Snapshot-isolation replay and high-fidelity retroaction of modified code support production DBMSs with low overhead, exposing elusive concurrency bugs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Qian Li (Stanford University)
- 2. Peter Kraft (Stanford University)
- 3. Michael Cafarella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 4. Cagatay Demiralp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 5. Goetz Graefe (Google)
- 6. Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)
- 7. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 8. Lalith Suresh (Feldera)
- 9. Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin)
- 10. Matei Zaharia (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@article{li_vldb23,
title = {{R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications}},
author = {Li, Qian and Kraft, Peter and Cafarella, Michael and Demiralp, Cagatay and Graefe, Goetz and Kozyrakis, Christos and Stonebraker, Michael and Suresh, Lalith and Yu, Xiangyao and Zaharia, Matei},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {11},
pages = {3085--3097},
doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611510},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611479.3611510},
year = {2023}
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