Guanzhou Hu

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3ranked-venue papers in the field
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3since 2021 · last 2025
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Big Data, Cloud & Distributed Data Systems · 2Database Systems & Data Management · 1
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2025 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS
abstract
Modern cloud databases are shifting from converged architectures to storage disaggregation, enabling independent scaling and billing of compute and storage. However, cloud databases still rely on external, converged coordination services (e.g., ZooKeeper) for their control planes. These services are effectively lightweight databases optimized for low-volume metadata. As the control plane scales in the cloud, this approach faces similar limitations as converged databases did before storage disaggregation: scalability bottlenecks, low cost efficiency, and increased operational burden. We propose to disaggregate the cluster coordination to achieve the same benefits that storage disaggregation brought to modern cloud DBMSs. We present Marlin, a cloud-native coordination mechanism that fully embraces storage disaggregation. Marlin eliminates the need for external coordination services by consolidating coordination functionality into the existing cloud-native database it manages. To achieve failover without an external coordination service, Marlin allows cross-node modifications on coordination states. To ensure data consistency, Marlin employs transactions to manage both coordination and application states and introduces MarlinCommit, an optimized commit protocol that ensures strong transactional guarantees even under cross-node modifications. Our evaluations demonstrate that Marlin improves cost efficiency by up to 4.4x and reduces reconfiguration duration by up to 4.9x compared to converged coordination solutions.
Guanzhou Hu, Mahesh Balakrishnan 0001, Xiangyao Yu
Proc. ACM Manag. Data2
2023 MadFS: Per-File Virtualization for Userspace Persistent Memory Filesystems
Shawn Zhong, Chenhao Ye, Guanzhou Hu, Suyan Qu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
FAST3
2021 The Storage Hierarchy is Not a Hierarchy: Optimizing Caching on Modern Storage Devices with Orthus
Zhihan Guo, Guanzhou Hu, Kaiwei Tu, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park 0001, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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