PNUTS to Sherpa: Lessons from Yahoo!'s Cloud Database
Summary: Traces Yahoo!'s move from PNUTS to Sherpa, a geo-replicated cloud datastore evolved from research to production. Highlights lessons learned and a comparison to current cloud stores, focusing on HA, geo-replication latency, and simple update semantics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Brian F. Cooper
- 2. P.P.S. Narayan
- 3. Raghu Ramakrishnan
- 4. Utkarsh Srivastava
- 5. Adam Silberstein
- 6. Philip Bohannon
- 7. Hans-Arno Jacobsen
- 8. Nick Puz
- 9. Daniel Weaver
- 10. Ramana Yerneni
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,781 | Bringing Cloud-Native Storage to SAP IQ | 2021 | SIGMOD | 4.4479873e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.0006582344 |
| 156 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00040580118 |
| 914 | Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00015370799 |
| 3,095 | Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases | 2009 | SIGMOD | 7.5775325e-05 |
| 3,437 | Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table | 2008 | SIGMOD | 7.0930413e-05 |
| 3,795 | Schema-Agnostic Indexing with Azure DocumentDB | 2015 | VLDB | 6.7555427e-05 |
| 4,444 | Where in the World is My Data? | 2011 | VLDB | 6.1767411e-05 |
| 12,338 | Adaptively Parallelizing Distributed Range Queries | 2009 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,820 | Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit | 2013 | VLDB | 8.0655916e-05 |
| 10,937 | Native Cloud Object Storage in Db2 Warehouse: Implementing a Fast and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage Architecture | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 4,387 | LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.2219283e-05 |
| 6,454 | Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures | 2023 | CIDR | 5.0510162e-05 |
| 8,150 | Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities | 2022 | VLDB | 4.5714701e-05 |
| 9,802 | CloudJump: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Cloud Storages | 2022 | VLDB | 4.2777144e-05 |
| 6,326 | Peta-Scale Data Warehousing at Yahoo! | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.1041587e-05 |
| 5,919 | Walnut: A Unified Cloud Object Store | 2012 | SIGMOD | 5.2687494e-05 |
| 8,407 | A Batch of PNUTS: Experiences Connecting Cloud Batch and Serving Systems | 2011 | SIGMOD | 4.5159687e-05 |
| 54 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.0006582344 |