CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications
Summary: CloudKit provides strongly-consistent structured storage for mobile apps and automatic data synchronization across devices and users. Scale by app- and user-level multi-tenancy enables efficient data placement durability and security at petabyte scale. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander Shraer (Apple)
- 2. Alexandre Aybes (Apple)
- 3. Bryan Davis (Apple)
- 4. Christos Chrysafis (Apple)
- 5. Dave Browning (Apple)
- 6. Eric Krugler (Apple)
- 7. Eric Stone (Apple)
- 8. Harrison Chandler (Apple)
- 9. Jacob Farkas (Apple)
- 10. John Quinn (Apple)
- 11. Jonathan Ruben (Apple)
- 12. Michael Ford (Apple)
- 13. Mike McMahon (Apple)
- 14. Nathan Williams (Apple)
- 15. Nicolas Favre-Felix (Apple)
- 16. Nihar Sharma (Apple)
- 17. Ori Herrnstadt (Apple)
- 18. Paul Seligman (Apple)
- 19. Raghav Pisolkar (Apple)
- 20. Scott Dugas (Apple)
- 21. Scott Gray (Apple)
- 22. Shirley Lu (Apple)
- 23. Sytze Harkema (Apple)
- 24. Valentin Kravtsov (Apple)
- 25. Vanessa Hong (Apple)
- 26. Wan Ling Yih (Apple)
- 27. Yizuo Tian (Apple)
BibTeX Citation
@article{shraer_vldb18,
title = {{CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications}},
author = {Shraer, Alexander and Aybes, Alexandre and Davis, Bryan and Chrysafis, Christos and Browning, Dave and Krugler, Eric and Stone, Eric and Chandler, Harrison and Farkas, Jacob and Quinn, John and Ruben, Jonathan and Ford, Michael and McMahon, Mike and Williams, Nathan and Favre-Felix, Nicolas and Sharma, Nihar and Herrnstadt, Ori and Seligman, Paul and Pisolkar, Raghav and Dugas, Scott and Gray, Scott and Lu, Shirley and Harkema, Sytze and Kravtsov, Valentin and Hong, Vanessa and Yih, Wan Ling and Tian, Yizuo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
volume = {11},
number = {5},
pages = {540--552},
doi = {10.1145/3164135.3164138},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3164135.3164138},
year = {2018}
}
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| 2,469 | FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.5354086e-05 |
| 3,683 | Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB | 2022 | SIGMOD | 7.2035148e-05 |
| 7,735 | FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.5560093e-05 |
| 11,686 | QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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