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Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud

Summary: Multi-tenant cloud DBaaS with compute–storage separation; read replicas, low network use, hardware sharing, and scalable performance. Contributions: novel replication/recovery for higher availability with few replicas; append-only storage with single-hop paths; detailed storage-node architecture not previously published. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf4935ae0528e237c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2020
Pagerank
8.1464332e-05
Overall Rank
2,671 | 82.05%
DOI
10.1145/3318464.3386129

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{depoutovitch_sigmod20,
        title = {{Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud}},
        author = {Depoutovitch, Alex and Chen, Chong and Chen, Jin and Larson, Paul and Lin, Shu and Ng, Jack and Cui, Wenlin and Liu, Qiang and Huang, Wei and Xiao, Yong and He, Yongjun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3386129},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3386129},
        year = {2020}
}

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