Building on Quicksand
Summary: Argues that with larger unreliable components, asynchronous state capture—primaries ack before backups—renders guarantees probabilistic and forces idempotent, retryable steps. Surveys probabilistic-execution and eventual-consistency patterns and outlines platform design directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Pat Helland
- 2. Dave Campbell
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 982 | Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00012905763 |
| 1,230 | Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00011661731 |
| 1,359 | Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00011151736 |
| 2,617 | Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums | 2012 | VLDB | 8.4046915e-05 |
| 5,157 | New Directions in Cloud Programming | 2021 | CIDR | 6.4052187e-05 |
| 6,383 | PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.9585397e-05 |
| 6,466 | IPA: Invariant-Preserving Applications for Weakly Consistent Replicated Databases | 2019 | VLDB | 5.9275246e-05 |
| 6,803 | Keep CALM and CRDT On | 2023 | VLDB | 5.8293532e-05 |
| 7,512 | Transactional Intent | 2011 | CIDR | 5.6626312e-05 |
| 11,694 | Performance in the Spotlight | 2019 | VLDB | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 12,031 | Engagements: Building Eventually ACiD Business Transactions | 2013 | CIDR | 5.1725247e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 370 | Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00020027973 |
| 2,542 | Robustness To Crash In A Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach | 1984 | VLDB | 8.5108852e-05 |
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