Edelweiss: Automatic Storage Reclamation for Distributed Programming

Summary: Edelweiss extends Bloom with an immutable event-log language whose analyses synthesize application-specific, safe distributed garbage collection. It implements protocols from reliable broadcast to causal consistency, matching hand-written reclamation while preserving ELE’s concurrency, availability, and replayability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hb7aea74b3efd219f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 12,504 | 15.93%
DOI: 10.14778/2732279.2732288

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Authors

1. Neil Conway (University of California Berkeley)
2. Peter Alvaro (University of California Berkeley)
3. Emily Andrews (University of California Berkeley)
4. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{conway_vldb14,
        title = {{Edelweiss: Automatic Storage Reclamation for Distributed Programming}},
        author = {Conway, Neil and Alvaro, Peter and Andrews, Emily and Hellerstein, Joseph M.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {6},
        pages = {481--492},
        doi = {10.14778/2732279.2732288},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732279.2732288},
        year = {2014}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,515	Optimizing Distributed Protocols with Query Rewrites	2024	SIGMOD	5.1691568e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,214	Sacrificing Serializability to Attain High Availability of Data in an Unreliable Network	1982	PODS	0.00011493628
1,245	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011353116
1,695	Bolt-on Causal Consistency	2013	SIGMOD	9.8556267e-05
3,114	Epidemic Algorithms in Replicated Databases (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	7.6349852e-05

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