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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
0.00026001543
Overall Rank
186 | 98.76%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386134
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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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9,955 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.0910746e-05
10,272 MaLT: A Framework for Managing Large Transactions in OceanBase 2025 SIGMOD 5.0356939e-05
10,293 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.031399e-05
10,339 Data Chunk Compaction in Vectorized Execution 2025 SIGMOD 5.0210286e-05
10,348 AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud 2025 VLDB 5.0195882e-05
10,367 Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP 2026 SIGMOD 5.0082317e-05
10,434 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
10,439 Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases 2026 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
10,512 Detecting Join Bugs in Database Engines via Join Implication Reasoning 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,527 Epoch-based Optimistic Concurrency Control in Geo-replicated Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,545 HotHash: Hotness-Aware Consistent Hashing for Cloud Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,605 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,657 P4KVS: A Role-Replica Separation Offloading Method to Achieve In-Network Consistency for KV Stores Based on P4 Switches 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,726 LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,740 Performant Synchronization in Geo-Distributed Databases 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,847 Efficient Cooperation-Aware Key and Value Management for LLM Inference 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,942 Detecting Data-Type-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Compatible Database Construction 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,972 Enhancing Database Write Performance with the Write Operation Pushdown Framework 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,973 K2+: A Multi-Region OLTP Database with Disaggregated Storage for High Availability and Strong Consistency 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,991 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,000 Seron: Smart Query Router for Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Databases with Shared Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,004 A Tree-Structured Two-Phase Commit Framework for OceanBase: Optimizing Scalability and Consistency 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,017 Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,148 Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow 2025 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
11,194 Asynchronous Replication Strategies for a Real-Time DBMS 2025 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,198 OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML 2025 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,298 FLEET: High-Performance Durable Replicated State Machines using Scattered and Coordinated Log Entries 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,309 K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,341 HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,351 Concurrency Control as a Service 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,379 Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,391 HAWK: A Workload-driven Hierarchical Deadlock Detection Approach in Distributed Database System 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,434 GRewriter: Practical Query Rewriting with Automatic Rule Set Expansion in GaussDB 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,435 FDBKeeper: Enabling Scalable Coordination Services for Metadata Management using Distributed Key-Value Databases 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,437 Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,503 PolyBase: Adapting to Data Affinity Changes in Geo-Replicated Database via Row-Level Consensus-Group Affiliation Re-Assignment 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,520 Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems 2024 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
11,523 Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL? The Database AND the Application Have a BIG DEAL: Their Isolation Semantics 2024 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
11,525 The Tipping Point of Edge-Cloud Data Management 2024 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
11,557 Native Cloud Object Storage in Db2 Warehouse: Implementing a Fast and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage Architecture 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,671 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,710 Eventual Durability 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,753 MRVs: Enforcing Numeric Invariants in Parallel Updates to Hotspots with Randomized Splitting 2023 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,781 Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet 2023 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,828 Techniques and Efficiencies from Building a Real-Time DBMS 2023 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,853 XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes 2023 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,921 MinMax Sampling: A Near-optimal Global Summary for Aggregation in the Wide Area 2022 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,005 Efficiently Supporting Adaptive Multi-Level Serializability Models in Distributed Database Systems 2021 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00063972112
47 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00043937456
54 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040489652
63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038609177
80 H-Store: A High-Performance, Distributed Main Memory Transaction Processing System 2008 VLDB 0.00036267455
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00023973185
237 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023615848
617 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015511217
725 Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL 2012 VLDB 0.00014434166
749 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014247708
891 E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013211469
1,575 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010160119
1,701 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8192785e-05
1,710 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.797642e-05
2,090 ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications 2017 SIGMOD 9.0448846e-05
2,304 Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas 2017 VLDB 8.6591761e-05
2,347 Towards a Non-2PC Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems 2016 SIGMOD 8.5919381e-05
2,512 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.3474334e-05
3,069 Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions 2014 VLDB 7.6682775e-05
3,129 DPaxos: Managing Data Closer to Users for Low-Latency and Mobile Applications 2018 SIGMOD 7.603983e-05
3,448 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.2745918e-05
3,523 Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1 2013 VLDB 7.2161335e-05
3,587 Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions 2019 VLDB 7.1681502e-05
3,990 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 6.8609004e-05
4,365 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.6262833e-05
7,437 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.5129091e-05
7,757 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.4420443e-05
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