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: 13445
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.6091978e-05
Overall Rank: 7,929 | 44.90%
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
6,838	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	4.906223e-05
8,838	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	4.4346105e-05
9,189	Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass	2025	SIGMOD	4.3750062e-05
9,237	Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?	2025	SIGMOD	4.3648789e-05
10,294	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,345	OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck	2025	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
10,400	Rapid Data Ingestion through DB-OS Co-design	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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	0.00039408116
417	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023734582
419	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023720294
729	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00017448059
3,682	Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS	2020	CIDR	6.8429686e-05
3,688	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	6.8370783e-05
3,724	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	6.8121422e-05
3,919	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	6.6260396e-05
4,579	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.0651118e-05
4,873	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	5.8557568e-05
5,101	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	5.6938328e-05
6,166	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	5.1730118e-05
6,878	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	4.893966e-05
7,632	A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System	2022	CIDR	4.6872915e-05

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