Tunable Consistency in MongoDB
Summary: MongoDB's tunable replication-level consistency enables per-operation latency-consistency trade-offs. A speculative execution model and rollback protocol realize the spectrum, with real-world case studies and measured performance/latency trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. William Schultz (MongoDB)
- 2. Tess Avitabile (MongoDB)
- 3. Alyson Cabral (MongoDB)
BibTeX Citation
@article{schultz_vldb19,
title = {{Tunable Consistency in MongoDB}},
author = {Schultz, William and Avitabile, Tess and Cabral, Alyson},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '19},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
pages = {2071--2081},
doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352125},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352125},
year = {2019}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,900 | Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization | 2021 | VLDB | 6.3650568e-05 |
| 5,916 | Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.9486769e-05 |
| 6,339 | Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans | 2024 | VLDB | 5.8092399e-05 |
| 7,625 | eXtreme Modelling in Practice | 2020 | VLDB | 5.4820711e-05 |
| 8,889 | The LAW theorem: Local Reads and Linearizable Asynchronous Replication | 2025 | VLDB | 5.2559789e-05 |
| 11,378 | Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058781151 |
| 3,435 | Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB | 2019 | SIGMOD | 7.3016365e-05 |
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