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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Summary: Shows first‑gen serverless mismatches data‑centric, distributed and custom‑hardware workloads—limited state, I/O, network, extensibility. Argues these gaps stifle data‑systems innovation and lists challenges to make serverless a scalable, extensible exascale platform. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
320
Venue
CIDR
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00015272958
Overall Rank
924 | 93.58%
DOI
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1,326 Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012576952
1,632 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.0001107213
2,424 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 8.8380822e-05
2,791 Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training 2021 SIGMOD 8.1206618e-05
3,688 DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System 2022 VLDB 6.8414694e-05
4,586 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.0658825e-05
4,800 Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms 2021 CIDR 5.9117077e-05
4,870 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 5.8613885e-05
5,187 Stateful Functions as a Service in Action 2019 VLDB 5.6400706e-05
5,441 Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 5.5028093e-05
5,614 New Directions in Cloud Programming 2021 CIDR 5.4101976e-05
6,698 Netherite: Efficient Execution of Serverless Workflows 2022 VLDB 4.9573729e-05
6,988 CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment 2020 CIDR 4.8718019e-05
7,269 Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving 2022 SIGMOD 4.7815303e-05
7,296 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 4.7723197e-05
8,407 Serverless State Management Systems 2024 CIDR 4.5211284e-05
8,692 Boosting Efficiency of External Pipelines by Blurring Application Boundaries 2022 CIDR 4.4661967e-05
9,525 Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange 2022 SIGMOD 4.3310169e-05
9,973 End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure 2026 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
10,403 CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,889 Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless 2024 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,129 CausalMesh: A Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing 2024 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,563 Le Taureau : Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape & A Look Forward 2020 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,571 Serverless Query Processing on a Budget 2020 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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1,310 Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach 2011 CIDR 0.00012658593
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