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PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers

Summary: PolarDB Serverless enables disaggregated data centers by decoupling CPU from remote memory and storage pools with on-demand provisioning. Optimistic locking and index-aware prefetching mitigate disaggregation penalties, yielding 5.3× faster recovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hbe1ab040709a85c0
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00010963588
Overall Rank
1,343 | 90.98%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457560

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cao_sigmod21,
        title = {{PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers}},
        author = {Cao, Wei and Zhang, Yingqiang and Yang, Xinjun and Li, Feifei and Wang, Sheng and Hu, Qingda and Cheng, Xuntao and Chen, Zongzhi and Liu, Zhenjun and Fang, Jing and Wang, Bo and Wang, Yuhui and Sun, Haiqing and Yang, Ze and Cheng, Zhushi and Chen, Sen and Wu, Jian and Hu, Wei and Zhao, Jianwei and Gao, Yusong and Cai, Songlu and Zhang, Yunyang and Tong, Jiawang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457560},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457560},
        year = {2021}
}

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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038531147
221 ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes 1990 VLDB 0.00024274803
543 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.0001663263
1,059 Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012224884
1,217 PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database 2018 VLDB 0.00011489607
1,313 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011060108
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010975458
1,513 Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges 2019 VLDB 0.00010429438
1,590 YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing 2016 VLDB 0.00010139329
1,717 Cache-Conscious Concurrency Control of Main-Memory Indexes on Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems 2001 VLDB 9.8016891e-05
1,778 Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading 2014 VLDB 9.6619986e-05
2,030 Efficient Distributed Memory Management with RDMA and Caching 2018 VLDB 9.1579506e-05
2,052 Efficient and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions 1992 SIGMOD 9.1199209e-05
2,331 Cache Fusion: Extending Shared-Disk Clusters with Shared Caches 2001 VLDB 8.6276031e-05
2,350 Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs 2020 VLDB 8.5984201e-05
3,032 iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2019 VLDB 7.7351139e-05
4,877 Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage 2017 VLDB 6.3721859e-05
8,371 A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers 2020 VLDB 5.3448014e-05
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