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CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

Summary: Global OLTP, geo-distributed SQL with strong consistency and high availability via replication and automatic recovery. Novel geo-distributed transaction model on commodity hardware; scalable distributed SQL layer with standard SQL interface, benchmarked. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd4d3421c2b25048f
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
0.00026072278
Overall Rank
185 | 98.76%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386134

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{taft_sigmod20,
        title = {{CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database}},
        author = {Taft, Rebecca and Sharif, Irfan and Matei, Andrei and VanBenschoten, Nathan and Lewis, Jordan and Grieger, Tobias and Niemi, Kai and Woods, Andy and Birzin, Anne and Poss, Raphael and Bardea, Paul and Ranade, Amruta and Darnell, Ben and Gruneir, Bram and Jaffray, Justin and Zhang, Lucy and Mattis, Peter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386134},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386134},
        year = {2020}
}

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234 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 0.00023765806
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1,462 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 0.0001058099
1,791 Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 9.6259014e-05
2,089 FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store 2021 SIGMOD 9.06623e-05
2,812 OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System 2022 VLDB 7.9811649e-05
3,651 Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans 2024 SIGMOD 7.1327136e-05
3,717 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 7.0723943e-05
4,102 QED: A Powerful Query Equivalence Decider for SQL 2024 VLDB 6.8070264e-05
4,223 Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications 2021 SIGMOD 6.7237373e-05
4,385 R-Bot: An LLM-based Query Rewrite System 2025 VLDB 6.6235293e-05
4,499 ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance 2022 VLDB 6.5746329e-05
4,762 TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Network Workloads 2022 VLDB 6.4297943e-05
4,900 Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization 2021 VLDB 6.3650568e-05
4,997 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.3216631e-05
5,185 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 6.238732e-05
5,341 Spitz: A Verifiable Database System 2020 VLDB 6.1730655e-05
5,363 Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud 2023 VLDB 6.1608121e-05
5,366 RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook's Online TAO Data Store 2021 VLDB 6.1604704e-05
5,447 Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation 2022 SIGMOD 6.1260661e-05
5,775 Blockchains vs. Distributed Databases: Dichotomy and Fusion 2021 SIGMOD 5.9981539e-05
5,805 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9886376e-05
6,096 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.8882771e-05
6,100 Constant Optimization Driven Database System Testing 2025 SIGMOD 5.8868734e-05
6,270 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 5.8283805e-05
6,604 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.7392648e-05
6,941 GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent and Light-Coordinated OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database 2023 SIGMOD 5.6385668e-05
7,049 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 5.6132108e-05
7,404 Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing 2021 SIGMOD 5.5357067e-05
7,813 CDSBen: Benchmarking the Performance of Storage Services in Cloud-native Database System at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.448222e-05
7,829 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.4438901e-05
7,853 Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle 2024 VLDB 5.4401573e-05
8,083 Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks 2023 VLDB 5.3942942e-05
8,084 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 5.3942942e-05
8,156 Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods 2025 CIDR 5.3880193e-05
8,572 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.3126816e-05
8,582 ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores 2023 VLDB 5.3095579e-05
8,889 The LAW theorem: Local Reads and Linearizable Asynchronous Replication 2025 VLDB 5.2559789e-05
9,181 Structural Designs Meet Optimality: Exploring Optimized LSM-tree Structures in A Colossal Configuration Space 2024 SIGMOD 5.2118872e-05
9,218 EPSC: Testing Database Management Systems via Equivalent Prepared Statement Construction 2026 SIGMOD 5.2056825e-05
9,228 HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation 2025 SIGMOD 5.2056825e-05
9,403 Detecting Schema-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Equivalent Database Construction 2025 VLDB 5.1833519e-05
9,451 CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization 2025 SIGMOD 5.1749657e-05
9,569 OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data 2025 VLDB 5.1571823e-05
9,646 Are Joins over LSM-trees Ready? Take RocksDB as an Example 2025 VLDB 5.1453267e-05
9,712 Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases 2025 VLDB 5.1370764e-05
9,714 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 5.1369935e-05
9,791 TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads 2023 VLDB 5.1259267e-05
9,869 Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases 2025 VLDB 5.1176637e-05
9,870 TimeCloth: Fast Point-in-Time Database Recovery in The Cloud 2024 SIGMOD 5.1176637e-05
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14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00064031282
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
63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038531147
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036364464
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024013745
237 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023660039
617 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015555815
726 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00014459037
746 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014286107
890 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013247078
1,573 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010197084
1,695 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8556267e-05
1,704 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.8314656e-05
2,077 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.0781571e-05
2,288 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 8.6912082e-05
2,335 Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.6221031e-05
2,509 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.3705575e-05
3,058 Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions 2014 VLDB 7.6964255e-05
3,117 DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications 2018 SIGMOD 7.6322243e-05
3,435 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.3016365e-05
3,515 Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 2013 VLDB 7.2428059e-05
3,576 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 7.1940408e-05
3,976 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 6.8864051e-05
4,343 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.6508015e-05
7,414 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.533302e-05
7,739 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.4621684e-05
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