A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications

Summary: Scalable data platform for large numbers of small web apps: use commodity hardware + MySQL and host each app on a single-node instance to provide full SQL, transactions, HA and SLAs cheaply. Designs replication, automated migration and load‑balancing to minimize ops complexity and scale TPC‑W workloads across many apps. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 117
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 9.7290813e-05
Overall Rank: 1,800 | 87.66%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Fan Yang (Google)
2. Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Yahoo)
3. Ramana Yerneni (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yang_cidr09,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '09},
        title = {{A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Yang, Fan and Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel and Yerneni, Ramana},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
144	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00029554682
741	Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014442062
902	Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration	2011	VLDB	0.00013328979
1,267	Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore	2011	VLDB	0.0001140641
3,373	RTP: Robust Tenant Placement for Elastic In-Memory Database Clusters	2013	SIGMOD	7.4671258e-05
8,431	Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles?	2010	VLDB	5.4259744e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,754	Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation	2005	SIGMOD	9.8237803e-05
1,780	The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2005	CIDR	9.7745226e-05
2,278	BATON: A Balanced Tree Structure for Peer-to-Peer Networks	2005	VLDB	8.8160706e-05
3,187	P-Ring: An Efficient and Robust P2P Range Index Structure	2007	SIGMOD	7.6555242e-05

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