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Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos
Summary: Advocates modular, self-adaptive "lego" cloud DBs—cloud-native, integrated with platform/orchestration, co-designed for data fabrics, and AI-augmented to handle dynamic workloads. Demonstrates these principles via a PolarDB modernization case study.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13284
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 4.4729338e-05
- Overall Rank
- 8,658 | 39.77%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3611540.3611639
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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 |
| 395 |
Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases |
2006 |
SIGMOD |
0.00024433049 |
| 646 |
Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing |
2005 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001871827 |
| 736 |
AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data |
2020 |
VLDB |
0.00017447617 |
| 1,499 |
Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook |
2011 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011675192 |
| 1,503 |
Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.0001164317 |
| 1,593 |
PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00011224049 |
| 1,651 |
CorrectDB: SQL Engine with Practical Query Authentication |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00011011694 |
| 1,729 |
Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.0001073728 |
| 1,732 |
CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications |
2023 |
VLDB |
0.00010732004 |
| 2,004 |
X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
9.811707e-05 |
| 2,146 |
HEDA: Multi-Attribute Unbounded Aggregation over Homomorphically Encrypted Database |
2023 |
VLDB |
9.4333516e-05 |
| 2,288 |
Concerto: A High Concurrency Key-Value Store with Integrity |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
9.0953738e-05 |
| 2,358 |
PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
8.9617346e-05 |
| 2,873 |
TitAnt: Online Real-time Transaction Fraud Detection in Ant Financial |
2019 |
VLDB |
7.9754477e-05 |
| 3,431 |
Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions |
2021 |
VLDB |
7.1008172e-05 |
| 3,500 |
FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
7.0373486e-05 |
| 4,049 |
Building Enclave-Native Storage Engines for Practical Encrypted Databases |
2021 |
VLDB |
6.4955754e-05 |
| 4,538 |
VeriDB: An SGX-based Verifiable Database |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
6.1040708e-05 |
| 4,616 |
Eigen: End-to-end Resource Optimization for Large-Scale Databases on the Cloud |
2023 |
VLDB |
6.045723e-05 |
| 6,131 |
Fast Data in the Era of Big Data: Twitter's Real-Time Related Query Suggestion Architecture |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
5.1956688e-05 |
| 6,170 |
PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
5.171601e-05 |
| 6,718 |
Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.9505599e-05 |
| 8,286 |
OneShotSTL: One-Shot Seasonal-Trend Decomposition For Online Time Series Anomaly Detection And Forecasting |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.5435639e-05 |
| 9,126 |
PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.3916756e-05 |
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| 7,543 |
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| 2,358 |
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2021 |
SIGMOD |
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