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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
0.0001526483
Overall Rank
920 | 93.61%
DOI
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1,324 Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions 2020 SIGMOD 0.00012585081
1,634 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00011061792
2,420 Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure 2020 SIGMOD 8.8474951e-05
2,795 Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training 2021 SIGMOD 8.1135606e-05
3,688 DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System 2022 VLDB 6.8370783e-05
4,583 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.0600815e-05
4,803 Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms 2021 CIDR 5.906363e-05
4,873 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 5.8557568e-05
5,185 Stateful Functions as a Service in Action 2019 VLDB 5.6358087e-05
5,446 Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 5.4986799e-05
5,623 New Directions in Cloud Programming 2021 CIDR 5.4050025e-05
6,701 Netherite: Efficient Execution of Serverless Workflows 2022 VLDB 4.9526166e-05
6,986 CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment 2020 CIDR 4.8672517e-05
7,264 Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving 2022 SIGMOD 4.7781264e-05
7,291 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 4.7677422e-05
8,402 Serverless State Management Systems 2024 CIDR 4.5167942e-05
8,689 Boosting Efficiency of External Pipelines by Blurring Application Boundaries 2022 CIDR 4.4619184e-05
9,526 Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange 2022 SIGMOD 4.3268664e-05
9,972 End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure 2026 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
10,414 CockroachDB Serverless: Sub-second Scaling from Zero with Multi-region Cluster Virtualization 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,893 Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless 2024 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
11,132 CausalMesh: A Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,567 Le Taureau : Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape & A Look Forward 2020 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,575 Serverless Query Processing on a Budget 2020 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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774 Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization 2006 SIGMOD 0.00016775162
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1,311 Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach 2011 CIDR 0.00012650881
1,377 Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking 2011 PODS 0.00012299784
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