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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

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 48 of 98 citing papers.

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9,913 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.1103839e-05
10,234 MaLT: A Framework for Managing Large Transactions in OceanBase 2025 SIGMOD 5.0547931e-05
10,259 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.050482e-05
10,304 Data Chunk Compaction in Vectorized Execution 2025 SIGMOD 5.0400722e-05
10,311 AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud 2025 VLDB 5.0386264e-05
10,355 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
10,361 Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases 2026 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
10,434 Detecting Join Bugs in Database Engines via Join Implication Reasoning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,450 Epoch-based Optimistic Concurrency Control in Geo-replicated Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,468 HotHash: Hotness-Aware Consistent Hashing for Cloud Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,528 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,531 Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,584 P4KVS: A Role-Replica Separation Offloading Method to Achieve In-Network Consistency for KV Stores Based on P4 Switches 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,654 LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,668 Performant Synchronization in Geo-Distributed Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,776 Efficient Cooperation-Aware Key and Value Management for LLM Inference 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,872 Detecting Data-Type-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Compatible Database Construction 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,902 Enhancing Database Write Performance with the Write Operation Pushdown Framework 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,903 K2+: A Multi-Region OLTP Database with Disaggregated Storage for High Availability and Strong Consistency 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,921 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,930 Seron: Smart Query Router for Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Databases with Shared Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,934 A Tree-Structured Two-Phase Commit Framework for OceanBase: Optimizing Scalability and Consistency 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,947 Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,078 Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow 2025 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,125 Asynchronous Replication Strategies for a Real-Time DBMS 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,130 OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,234 FLEET: High-Performance Durable Replicated State Machines using Scattered and Coordinated Log Entries 2025 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
11,277 HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,288 Concurrency Control as a Service 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,317 Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,330 HAWK: A Workload-driven Hierarchical Deadlock Detection Approach in Distributed Database System 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,375 GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,376 FDBKeeper: Enabling Scalable Coordination Services for Metadata Management using Distributed Key-Value Databases 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,378 Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,445 PolyBase: Adapting to Data Affinity Changes in Geo-Replicated Database via Row-Level Consensus-Group Affiliation Re-Assignment 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,462 Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems 2024 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,465 Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL? The Database AND the Application Have a BIG DEAL: Their Isolation Semantics 2024 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,467 The Tipping Point of Edge-Cloud Data Management 2024 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,500 Native Cloud Object Storage in Db2 Warehouse: Implementing a Fast and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage Architecture 2024 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,618 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,658 Eventual Durability 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,701 MRVs: Enforcing Numeric Invariants in Parallel Updates to Hotspots with Randomized Splitting 2023 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,731 Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet 2023 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,778 Techniques and Efficiencies from Building a Real-Time DBMS 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,803 XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,871 MinMax Sampling: A Near-optimal Global Summary for Aggregation in the Wide Area 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,955 Efficiently Supporting Adaptive Multi-Level Serializability Models in Distributed Database Systems 2021 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
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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