Immutability Changes Everything
Summary: Posits that immutable data—made affordable and necessary for distance coordination—fundamentally simplifies system design by enabling simpler synchronization, replication, and recovery primitives across the compute stack. Highlights how hardware (SSDs/HDDs) adopts immutability and surveys recurring trade-offs and design patterns when embracing immutable architectures. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Pat Helland (Salesforce)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{helland_cidr15,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '15},
title = {{Immutability Changes Everything}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Helland, Pat},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,229 | Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.307514e-05 |
| 7,300 | DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.6509215e-05 |
| 10,134 | A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,514 | Decoupled Transactions: Low Tail Latency Online Transactions Atop Jittery Servers | 2022 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,914 | Robust, Scalable, Real-Time Event Time Series Aggregation at Twitter | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,648 | Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside | 2005 | CIDR | 6.5870094e-05 |
| 13,559 | Heisenberg Was on the Write Track | 2015 | CIDR | - |
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