Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice

Summary: Tutorial on how RDMA and programmable network devices reshape database architecture and data movement at cloud scale. Distills a decade of hands-on design lessons, implementation pitfalls, and best practices as these technologies become broadly deployable. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13410
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.5520108e-05
Overall Rank: 7,753 | 46.81%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611579

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alberto Lerner (University of Freiburg)
2. Carsten Binnig (Google; Technical University of Darmstadt)
3. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Freiburg)
4. Rana Hussein (University of Freiburg)
5. Matthias Jasny (Technical University of Darmstadt)
6. Theo Jepsen (Intel)
7. Dan R. K. Ports (Microsoft)
8. Lasse Thostrup (Technical University of Darmstadt)
9. Tobias Ziegler (Technical University of Darmstadt)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lerner_vldb23,
        title = {{Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice}},
        author = {Lerner, Alberto and Binnig, Carsten and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe and Hussein, Rana and Jasny, Matthias and Jepsen, Theo and Ports, Dan R. K. and Thostrup, Lasse and Ziegler, Tobias},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3894--3897},
        doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611579},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611579},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,277	Rethinking MIMD-SIMD Interplay for Analytical Query Processing in In-Memory Database Engines	2025	CIDR	5.9288764e-05
10,123	Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
11,080	Analyzing Near-Network Hardware Acceleration with Co-Processing on DPUs	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
976	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012864533
1,345	The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale	2017	VLDB	0.00011090483
3,666	Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection	2020	VLDB	7.2142119e-05
3,868	DFI: The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks	2021	SIGMOD	7.0614899e-05
4,317	Design Guidelines for Correct, Efficient, and Scalable Synchronization using One-Sided RDMA	2023	SIGMOD	6.7646416e-05
4,626	In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging	2021	VLDB	6.5985783e-05
4,879	The Case for Network-Accelerated Query Processing	2019	CIDR	6.4669093e-05
6,174	Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? Analyzing Data Access for Distributed OLTP Architectures	2023	CIDR	5.9510389e-05
7,998	P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP	2022	SIGMOD	5.5093728e-05
8,179	GraphINC: Graph Pattern Mining at Network Speed	2023	SIGMOD	5.472762e-05
8,596	Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs	2024	SIGMOD	5.4051515e-05
9,668	D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems	2022	CIDR	5.2392753e-05
11,601	DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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