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Building a Database on S3

Summary: Evaluates Amazon S3 as a storage substrate for general-purpose databases with small objects and frequent updates. Presents read/write/commit protocols and analyzes cost, performance, and consistency tradeoffs for S3 as a DB backend. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3992
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00017615431
Overall Rank
720 | 95.00%
DOI
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
23 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00083894938
3,384 The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects 1992 SIGMOD 7.1591243e-05
4,124 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.4332935e-05
4,125 Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management 1996 SIGMOD 6.4332935e-05
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