Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles?

Summary: Tutorial surveys cloud-era systems for update-intensive and analytical workloads, spanning single-tenant and multitenant databases. It distills design tradeoffs and challenges to assess whether cloud computing brings fundamentally new data-management problems—or repackages familiar ones. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10347
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.4259744e-05
Overall Rank: 8,431 | 42.16%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921063

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)
2. Sudipto Das (University of California Santa Barbara)
3. Amr El Abbadi (University of California Santa Barbara)

BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb10,
        title = {{Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles?}},
        author = {Agrawal, Divyakant and Das, Sudipto and Abbadi, Amr El},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1647--1650},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921063},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921063},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,903	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.9761235e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
662	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015176173
1,000	Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud	2009	CIDR	0.000127281
1,423	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00010822279
1,800	A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications	2009	CIDR	9.7290813e-05
2,614	Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services	2009	VLDB	8.3430507e-05
2,779	The Design of the Force.com Multitenant Internet Application Development Platform	2009	SIGMOD	8.1297335e-05
8,186	A Comparison of Flexible Schemas for Software as a Service	2009	SIGMOD	5.4705133e-05

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