@inproceedings{arasu2021fastver,
author = {Arasu, Arvind and Rastogi, Aseem and Chandramouli, Badrish and Kossmann, Donald and Ghosh, Esha and Gehrke, Johannes and Swamy, Nikhil and Protzenko, Jonathan and Ramamurthy, Ravi and Setty, Srinath and Ramananandro, Tahina and Renen, Alexander van and Xu, Min},
title = {FastVer: Making Data Integrity a Commodity},
organization = {ACM},
booktitle = {SIGMOD},
year = {2021},
month = {June},
abstract = {We present FastVer, a high-performance key-value store with strong data integrity guarantees. FastVer is built as an extension of FASTER, an open-source, high-performance key-value store. It offers the same key-value API as FASTER plus an additional verify() method that detects if an unauthorized attacker tampered with the database and checks whether results of all read operations are consistent with historical updates. FastVer is based on a novel approach that combines the advantages of Merkle trees and deferred memory verification. We show that this approach achieves one to two orders of magnitudes higher throughputs than traditional approaches based on either Merkle trees or memory verification. We have formally proven the correctness of our approach in a proof assistant, ensuring that verify() detects any inconsistencies, except if a collision can be found on a cryptographic hash.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/fastver-making-data-integrity-a-commodity/},
}