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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
- 13285
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2023
- Pagerank
- 4.4686462e-05
- Overall Rank
- 8,656 | 39.85%
- DOI
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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 |
| 397 |
Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases |
2006 |
SIGMOD |
0.00024413949 |
| 647 |
Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing |
2005 |
SIGMOD |
0.00018706644 |
| 730 |
AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data |
2020 |
VLDB |
0.00017443615 |
| 1,477 |
Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011729657 |
| 1,497 |
Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook |
2011 |
SIGMOD |
0.00011668393 |
| 1,593 |
PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00011214218 |
| 1,651 |
CorrectDB: SQL Engine with Practical Query Authentication |
2013 |
VLDB |
0.00011001104 |
| 1,721 |
Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges |
2019 |
VLDB |
0.00010741822 |
| 1,731 |
CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications |
2023 |
VLDB |
0.00010723825 |
| 1,932 |
X-Engine: An Optimized Storage Engine for Large-scale E-commerce Transaction Processing |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010050776 |
| 2,149 |
HEDA: Multi-Attribute Unbounded Aggregation over Homomorphically Encrypted Database |
2023 |
VLDB |
9.4256962e-05 |
| 2,293 |
Concerto: A High Concurrency Key-Value Store with Integrity |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
9.0866672e-05 |
| 2,337 |
PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
9.0092781e-05 |
| 2,858 |
TitAnt: Online Real-time Transaction Fraud Detection in Ant Financial |
2019 |
VLDB |
8.0063362e-05 |
| 3,436 |
Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions |
2021 |
VLDB |
7.0939849e-05 |
| 3,504 |
FalconDB: Blockchain-based Collaborative Database |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
7.0305687e-05 |
| 3,882 |
Building Enclave-Native Storage Engines for Practical Encrypted Databases |
2021 |
VLDB |
6.6636559e-05 |
| 4,535 |
VeriDB: An SGX-based Verifiable Database |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
6.0992184e-05 |
| 4,615 |
Eigen: End-to-end Resource Optimization for Large-Scale Databases on the Cloud |
2023 |
VLDB |
6.0410647e-05 |
| 6,135 |
Fast Data in the Era of Big Data: Twitter's Real-Time Related Query Suggestion Architecture |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
5.1908958e-05 |
| 6,154 |
PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
5.1795738e-05 |
| 6,719 |
Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.9458096e-05 |
| 8,279 |
OneShotSTL: One-Shot Seasonal-Trend Decomposition For Online Time Series Anomaly Detection And Forecasting |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.5392079e-05 |
| 9,124 |
PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.3875066e-05 |
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| 2,337 |
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2021 |
SIGMOD |
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