Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited

Summary: Segment-based recovery for WAL: recover objects, not pages, and drop page LSNs to enable DMA I/O and finer concurrency. Tradeoffs: incompatible with physiological redo; allocation policy to safely mix ARIES and segments with correctness guarantees. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hdc1b2373a5df6bce
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 6.1848351e-05
Overall Rank: 5,306 | 64.34%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687727

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Russell Sears (University of California Berkeley)
2. Eric Brewer (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sears_vldb09,
        title = {{Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited}},
        author = {Sears, Russell and Brewer, Eric},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        volume = {2},
        number = {1},
        pages = {873--884},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687727},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687727},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
258	bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree	2012	SIGMOD	0.00022932099
6,320	Scalable Database Logging for Multicores	2018	VLDB	5.8129998e-05
12,128	Concurrent Updates to Pages with Fixed-Size Rows Using Lock-Free Algorithms	2020	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,755	Adaptive Logging for Mobile Device	2010	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
221	ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes	1990	VLDB	0.00024269058
647	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015201469
993	Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud	2009	CIDR	0.00012633413
3,408	Multi-Level Recovery	1990	PODS	7.3233886e-05
7,948	A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes	1999	SIGMOD	5.4187652e-05

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