Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud

Summary: Split DBMS into Transactional Components (TC) for logical concurrency and undo/redo, and Data Components (DC) exposing atomic record ops and physical layout via system transactions. Unbundling enables multi-level redo, app-specific storage and cloud-flexible transactions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 127
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.000127281
Overall Rank: 1,000 | 93.15%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Lomet (Microsoft)
2. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
3. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
4. Mike Zwilling (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lomet_cidr09,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '09},
        title = {{Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Lomet, David and Fekete, Alan and Weikum, Gerhard and Zwilling, Mike},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
604	Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	0.0001584774
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
1,089	High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy	2015	CIDR	0.00012242396
1,461	LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware	2013	VLDB	0.00010703712
1,637	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.0001015538
2,469	FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store	2021	SIGMOD	8.5354086e-05
2,559	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	8.4156672e-05
2,583	Towards Scalable Real-time Analytics: An Architecture for Scale-out of OLxP Workloads	2015	VLDB	8.3849987e-05
2,614	Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services	2009	VLDB	8.3430507e-05
2,903	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.9761235e-05
3,784	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	7.1268687e-05
4,030	Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond	2014	SIGMOD	6.9463933e-05
4,082	SQLCheck: Automated Detection and Diagnosis of SQL Anti-Patterns	2020	SIGMOD	6.9164719e-05
5,180	Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited	2009	VLDB	6.3293877e-05
6,070	Implementing Performance Competitive Logical Recovery	2011	VLDB	5.9879012e-05
6,509	Scalable Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores	2013	VLDB	5.8572742e-05
7,434	Database Isolation By Scheduling	2021	VLDB	5.619487e-05
8,431	Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles?	2010	VLDB	5.4259744e-05
10,889	Concurrency Control as a Service	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,715	Interactive Demonstration of SQLCheck	2021	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058720861
157	OLTP Through the Looking Glass, and What We Found There	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002863588
245	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023458287
662	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015176173
958	ARIES/IM: An Efficient and High Concurrency Index Management Method Using Write-Ahead Logging	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012956148
1,501	Key Range Locking Strategies for Improved Concurrency	1993	VLDB	0.00010559899
2,394	A Case for Staged Database Systems	2003	CIDR	8.6362653e-05
3,348	Multi-Level Recovery	1990	PODS	7.4945952e-05
3,680	MLR: A Recovery Method for Multi-level Systems	1992	SIGMOD	7.2042508e-05
7,592	A Theory of Redo Recovery	2003	SIGMOD	5.5893408e-05

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