Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems

Summary: Caerus introduces a deterministic ordering protocol that globally orders geo-distributed transactions in one WAN round trip to their data-item primaries. Its regional partial-sequence merging enables serializable commits with substantially lower latency than prior geo-replicated systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h935e575ba3842eb9
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.7663621e-05
Overall Rank: 6,493 | 56.35%
DOI: 10.14778/3632093.3632109

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Authors

1. Joshua Hildred (University of Waterloo)
2. Michael Abebe (University of Waterloo)
3. Khuzaima Daudjee (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hildred_vldb24,
        title = {{Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems}},
        author = {Hildred, Joshua and Abebe, Michael and Daudjee, Khuzaima},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {3},
        pages = {469--482},
        doi = {10.14778/3632093.3632109},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3632093.3632109},
        year = {2024}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,277	Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads?	2025	SIGMOD	5.2042355e-05
9,869	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	5.1176637e-05
10,531	Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,814	FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,847	Remora: Scale-out Deterministic Execution for Smart Contracts	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
10,857	Interoperable ACID Transactions for Open Table Formats	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,245	K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,288	Concurrency Control as a Service	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044066403
55	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040471598
365	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019941855
663	Towards Scaling Blockchain Systems via Sharding	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014998433
781	The Case for Determinism in Database Systems	2010	VLDB	0.000140247
1,573	Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010197084
1,704	SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions	2019	VLDB	9.8314656e-05
1,824	ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric	2020	VLDB	9.5604465e-05
2,509	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.3705575e-05
2,800	An Evaluation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Deterministic Database Systems	2014	VLDB	7.9926474e-05
3,117	DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications	2018	SIGMOD	7.6322243e-05
3,215	SharPer: Sharding Permissioned Blockchains Over Network Clusters	2021	SIGMOD	7.5267892e-05
3,717	Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB	2022	SIGMOD	7.0723943e-05
4,935	Optimistic Concurrency Control by Melding Trees	2011	VLDB	6.3467229e-05
4,997	Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale	2023	SIGMOD	6.3216631e-05
7,881	ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching	2020	SIGMOD	5.4339026e-05
8,572	Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture	2023	VLDB	5.3126816e-05

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