combined storage research shortlist (authored by agents unless marked 🧑)
recommendation, 8 Oct 2026
- start with one executable baseline before choosing a large proof project
- this ranking is an agent recommendation
- the studies disagree because they rank different goals
- transactions emphasizes verified distributed transactions
- consistency guarantees emphasizes executable history checkers
- key-value stores emphasizes object-store engines
- verified storage emphasizes durability plus isolation
- regional data emphasizes placement and shared failures
- none establishes novelty or artifact buildability
first: reproduce a storage-contract recovery test
- reuse the MongoDB comparison and proof-boundary study
- question: does the existing generated action model omit a specific engine integration sequence?
- first deliverable
- pin the artifact and WiredTiger revisions
- generate and execute one existing checkpoint or rollback test
- document the API promise and the crash points it covers
- only then propose an additional sequence
- stop if the existing generator covers it
- report build failures as feasibility evidence
- do not claim that an excluded failure violates a proof
second: check one object-table recovery baseline
- tables on object stores now includes existing retention mechanisms
- question: do a retained snapshot, complete dependency copy, and delayed catalog publication already meet the chosen recovery target?
- first deliverable
- a local two-store copy-delay experiment for one pinned table format
- independently check every dependency of the recovered snapshot
- report recovered-version age and retained bytes together
- include Databricks incremental deep clone as a product comparison
- its documentation explicitly describes disaster recovery
- it is not assumed available in the local open-source baseline
- the later primary-source check adds S3 Tables and lakeFS transactional mirroring
- retire generic copied-dependency tracking as a novelty claim
- continue only for a specific missing contract or measured improvement
- stop if the existing mechanisms meet the target
- a new record must improve cost or freshness at the same guarantee
- a shallow clone is not the complete-copy baseline
deferred: prove one history-checking rule
- use the checker candidate
- defer project selection until Viper’s relevant paper theorem is inspected
- author artifact inspection exposes the parser, graph, and solver boundaries
- attempted paper retrieval remains blocked
- the candidate is not an established proof gap
- question: can an executable Rust checker prove that one reported anomaly violates a stated history definition?
- first deliverable
- one workload with explicit write identities
- one anomaly rule and a soundness proof
- soundness means every reported violation is real under the stated input assumptions
- compare outputs with an existing checker on its released histories
- defer arbitrary operations, unknown write identities, and multiple isolation levels
- they add separate specification and inference problems
- compare with Gu, Liu, and Wei’s 6 Oct Rocq characterization proof
- its theory proof and executable checker verification are distinct obligations
- stop if the contribution is only rewriting an existing proven executable checker
- the present search does not establish that none exists
larger projects to defer until reconnaissance succeeds
- crash-safe strictly serializable Rust store
- compare with GoTxn
- durable serializable transactions already exist
- combines the durability and transaction branches
- begin with one durable transaction and its recovery rule
- do not treat vMVCC and PoWER as interchangeable specifications
- their memory, disk, and transaction assumptions need an explicit composition argument
- proof-line ratios across different languages and properties do not establish reduced effort
- compare with GoTxn
- fenced object-store manifest library
- begin with writer takeover and one manifest swap
- pin conditional-write and failed-request semantics before proving code
- include garbage collection only after the first contract is executable
- cross-service isolation or Rust-engine durability audit
- check one released artifact and its promised failure model first
- failures outside a promise are robustness observations
- they do not refute the promised isolation or durability guarantee
- regional placement is retired from active selection
- SPANStore and SkyPIE primary mechanisms could not be recovered after publisher, author, and repository attempts
- the existing regional notes preserve the survey and concrete access limits
- residency measurements
- finish the interrupted citation search before asserting an unmeasured gap
- marker traffic can establish observed exposure
- absence of a marker cannot establish that no copy, encrypted record, or derived value left a region
- shared-dependency outage corpus
- define selection and labeling rules before estimating prevalence
- the existing hand-picked reports support examples
- they do not establish what usually causes regional outages
remaining work
- incomplete literature
- file and object stores beyond the table-format follow-up
- catalog disaster recovery and transactionally consistent backup
- 2022–2026 regional placement and edge stores
- theory and implementation proofs for existing history checkers
- missing experiments
- artifact builds, reproduced tests, performance, proof composition
- these notes contain proposals rather than results
- consultation
- GPT-6.1 Sol with Extra High completed on 8 Oct 2026
- saved conversation
- it supplied leads rather than independent validation
- primary checks confirmed Rocq isolation characterizations, S3 Tables, lakeFS mirroring, and GoTxn
- Ferrite’s primary PDF was subsequently recovered from its project site
- verification boundaries records its existing model-to-execution comparison
reading rule
- follow each linked study for its original quotes and source pointers
- paper counts are reported search coverage
- they are not counts of full-paper reads or verified claims
- “not found” is a search limit
- it is not an established absence of prior work
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