Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions

Summary: Systematic empirical study of data management in microservices via literature review, open-source apps, and a practitioner survey to map practice. Identifies core system-level challenges and proposes microservice-oriented database features. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12546
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 7.0939849e-05
Overall Rank: 3,436 | 76.13%
DOI: 10.14778/3484224.3484232

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8,486	ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores	2023	VLDB	4.4955142e-05
8,656	Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos	2023	VLDB	4.4686462e-05
8,661	Transactions Make Debugging Easy	2023	CIDR	4.4679937e-05
8,710	Stateful Entities: Object-oriented Cloud Applications as Distributed Dataflows	2023	CIDR	4.4582438e-05
9,124	PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads	2023	VLDB	4.3875066e-05
9,731	DARQ Matter Binds Everything: Performant and Composable Cloud Programming via Resilient Steps	2023	SIGMOD	4.2901665e-05
10,348	Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow	2025	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,518	Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,685	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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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
45	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00071732655
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040580118
2,276	Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions	2014	SIGMOD	9.1320955e-05
2,602	What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Concurrency Control Research	2017	SIGMOD	8.4638236e-05
3,517	Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity	2015	SIGMOD	7.0183022e-05

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