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)
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Authors
- 1. Alex Depoutovitch (Huawei)
- 2. Chong Chen (Huawei)
- 3. Jin Chen (Huawei)
- 4. Paul Larson (Huawei)
- 5. Shu Lin (Huawei)
- 6. Jack Ng (Huawei)
- 7. Wenlin Cui (Huawei)
- 8. Qiang Liu (Huawei)
- 9. Wei Huang (Huawei)
- 10. Yong Xiao (Huawei)
- 11. Yongjun He (Huawei)
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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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00041219077 |
| 63 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00038531147 |
| 543 | Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.0001663263 |
| 1,217 | PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00011489607 |
| 1,322 | An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00011034098 |
| 2,766 | LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud | 2012 | VLDB | 8.0432817e-05 |
| 3,151 | Eon Mode: Bringing the Vertica Columnar Database to the Cloud | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.5906513e-05 |
| 6,494 | FineLine: Log-structured Transactional Storage and Recovery | 2018 | VLDB | 5.7659228e-05 |
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