Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware

Summary: Cloud and DBaaS make DBMS-specific unikernels practical: single-address-space kernels cut syscall/process-isolation overhead and permit direct hardware access for high-performance cloud-native databases. Advocates abandoning POSIX constraints to co-design new DB–OS abstractions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13444
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.6136219e-05
Overall Rank: 7,927 | 44.86%
DOI: 10.14778/3659437.3659462

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Viktor Leis
2. Christian Dietrich

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,840	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	4.9109345e-05
8,839	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	4.4388652e-05
9,185	Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass	2025	SIGMOD	4.3792034e-05
9,233	Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?	2025	SIGMOD	4.3690661e-05
10,282	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,333	OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck	2025	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,389	Rapid Data Ingestion through DB-OS Co-design	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
419	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023720338
735	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00017452467
3,687	Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS	2020	CIDR	6.8417266e-05
3,688	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	6.8414694e-05
3,736	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	6.8057888e-05
3,933	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	6.617914e-05
4,583	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.0676378e-05
4,870	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	5.8613885e-05
5,112	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	5.6876077e-05
6,177	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	5.1692825e-05
6,953	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	4.8882519e-05
7,631	A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System	2022	CIDR	4.6917915e-05

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