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: 13632
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.5418836e-05
Overall Rank: 7,802 | 46.48%
DOI: 10.14778/3659437.3659462

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Authors

1. Viktor Leis (Technical University of Munich)
2. Christian Dietrich (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

BibTeX Citation

@article{leis_vldb24,
        title = {{Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware}},
        author = {Leis, Viktor and Dietrich, Christian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '24},
        volume = {17},
        number = {8},
        pages = {2115--2122},
        doi = {10.14778/3659437.3659462},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3659437.3659462},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,498	LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs	2024	VLDB	5.861854e-05
8,840	Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?	2025	SIGMOD	5.3589906e-05
8,863	BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications	2025	SIGMOD	5.3551396e-05
9,345	Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass	2025	SIGMOD	5.284891e-05
10,581	Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,631	OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck	2025	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,676	Rapid Data Ingestion through DB-OS Co-design	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
66	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00038561587
233	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023815642
241	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023654664
422	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00018732744
2,828	Exploiting Directly-Attached NVMe Arrays in DBMS	2020	CIDR	8.0803679e-05
3,001	What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, And How To Exploit It: High-Performance I/O for High-Performance Storage Engines	2023	VLDB	7.8673493e-05
3,344	RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!	2016	VLDB	7.4980897e-05
3,549	DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System	2022	VLDB	7.3212765e-05
4,018	Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management	2023	SIGMOD	6.952278e-05
4,103	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	6.8993506e-05
4,675	Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting	2018	SIGMOD	6.5727393e-05
5,989	Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?	2022	CIDR	6.0175059e-05
6,656	COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design	2013	CIDR	5.8125079e-05
7,582	A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System	2022	CIDR	5.5918081e-05

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