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Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges

Summary: Alibaba's cloud-native DBs use hardware-software co-design (RDMA, NVM, DPDK), shared storage, and decoupled compute for elasticity. POLARDB/POLARDB-X delivers OLTP; AnalyticDB enables real-time analytics; autoscaling yields scale and lessons learned. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11946
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00010741822
Overall Rank
1,721 | 88.05%
DOI
10.14778/3352063.3352141

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 39 of 39 citing papers.

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1,614 MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph 2020 VLDB 0.00011137963
2,140 Diagnosing Root Causes of Intermittent Slow Queries in Cloud Databases 2020 VLDB 9.4565836e-05
2,264 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 9.1587362e-05
2,337 PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers 2021 SIGMOD 9.0092781e-05
3,241 A Learned Query Rewrite System using Monte Carlo Tree Search 2022 VLDB 7.32744e-05
3,396 Towards Cost-Effective and Elastic Cloud Database Deployment via Memory Disaggregation 2021 VLDB 7.1396933e-05
3,465 LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency 2025 VLDB 7.0668293e-05
4,151 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 6.4020605e-05
4,174 Ganos: A Multidimensional, Dynamic, and Scene-Oriented Cloud-Native Spatial Database Engine 2022 VLDB 6.3775863e-05
4,436 2R: Efficiently Isolating Cold Pages in Flash Storages 2020 VLDB 6.1840937e-05
4,873 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 5.8557568e-05
6,454 Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures 2023 CIDR 5.0510162e-05
6,719 Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management 2022 VLDB 4.9458096e-05
7,168 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 4.8073922e-05
7,336 SaS: SSD as SQL Database System 2021 VLDB 4.7533353e-05
7,866 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 4.6282779e-05
8,185 Two is Better Than One: The Case for 2-Tree for Skewed Data Sets 2023 CIDR 4.5614825e-05
8,656 Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos 2023 VLDB 4.4686462e-05
8,781 Bringing Cloud-Native Storage to SAP IQ 2021 SIGMOD 4.4479873e-05
8,806 Your Read is Our Priority in Flash Storage 2022 VLDB 4.44219e-05
8,954 Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases 2025 SIGMOD 4.4189512e-05
9,124 PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads 2023 VLDB 4.3875066e-05
9,195 FlashAlloc: Dedicating Flash Blocks By Objects 2023 VLDB 4.3724584e-05
9,323 Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink® 2.0 2025 VLDB 4.351469e-05
9,803 Cquirrel: Continuous Query Processing over Acyclic Relational Schemas 2021 VLDB 4.2777144e-05
9,882 Towards Resource-adaptive Query Execution in Cloud Native Databases 2024 CIDR 4.2594931e-05
9,957 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 4.2323889e-05
10,330 Terark-DS: A High-Performance and Storage-Efficient Key-Value Separation Storage Engine on Disaggregated Storage 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,413 CloudJump II: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Shared Storage 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,414 CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,478 AJOSC: Adaptive Join Order Selection for Continuous Queries 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,516 SwiftSpatial: Spatial Joins on Modern Hardware 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,679 Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,769 TuskFlow: An Efficient Graph Database for Long-Running Transactions 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,788 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB's Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,084 Towards Millions of Database Transmission Services in the Cloud 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,095 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,313 Runtime Encoding Execution in AnalyticDB: Efficient Query Executor for Cloud Database 2022 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
13,205 Ganos Aero: A Cloud-Native System for Big Raster Data Management and Processing 2023 VLDB -
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
70 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00059744625
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040580118
183 Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning 2017 SIGMOD 0.00036859633
310 The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later 2012 VLDB 0.0002815547
371 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00025382677
379 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00024954332
476 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00022216002
704 Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2018 SIGMOD 0.00017785557
1,321 Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012605455
1,498 P-Store: An Elastic Database System with Predictive Provisioning 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011660631
1,578 PaxosStore: High-availability Storage Made Practical in WeChat 2017 VLDB 0.00011275654
1,588 Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store 2014 SIGMOD 0.00011232949
1,593 PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database 2018 VLDB 0.00011214218
1,932 X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010050776
3,153 AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud 2019 VLDB 7.4706916e-05
3,692 iBTune: Individualized Buffer Tuning for Large-scale Cloud Databases 2019 VLDB 6.8328808e-05
4,766 Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users 2018 SIGMOD 5.933206e-05
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