Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities

Summary: Survey of cloud-native databases (DBaaS) with OLTP/OLAP taxonomies and techniques like compute-storage disaggregation and log-as-database. Reviews storage, processing, analytics, replication, serverless, recovery, and security, and outlines challenges and opportunities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12882
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.715241e-05
Overall Rank: 7,543 | 47.53%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554893

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,923	HyBench: A New Benchmark for HTAP Databases	2024	VLDB	5.2721765e-05
6,170	PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba	2023	SIGMOD	5.171601e-05
8,095	GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation	2024	VLDB	4.5865778e-05
9,213	PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation	2024	SIGMOD	4.3721075e-05
10,182	Making LSM-Tree-based Key-Value Store Practical and Efficient for Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud Databases	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,402	CloudJump II: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Shared Storage	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,707	PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,787	AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
918	Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	0.00015350181
1,284	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012837822
1,326	Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012576952
1,503	Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001164317
1,984	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	9.8607096e-05
2,062	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	9.6481955e-05
2,163	Elastic Machine Learning Algorithms in Amazon SageMaker	2020	SIGMOD	9.3949234e-05
2,358	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	8.9617346e-05
3,430	Towards Cost-Effective and Elastic Cloud Database Deployment via Memory Disaggregation	2021	VLDB	7.1009617e-05
3,436	Sharing Buffer Pool Memory in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2015	VLDB	7.0948913e-05
3,449	Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation	2022	VLDB	7.0824319e-05
3,473	AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI	2021	SIGMOD	7.062864e-05
3,844	The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract)	2021	VLDB	6.7076451e-05
4,019	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	6.5238856e-05
4,152	openGauss: An Autonomous Database System	2021	VLDB	6.4060406e-05
4,284	HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next	2022	SIGMOD	6.2914924e-05
4,667	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	6.0116919e-05
5,861	Machine Learning for Databases	2021	VLDB	5.298883e-05

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