Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms
Summary: Boxer augments FaaS with direct function-to-function TCP/IP communication to enable efficient distributed data processing on serverless platforms, avoiding cloud-storage-based coordination. Shows up to 11× TPC-H speedup, 621 Mbit/s throughput, <1 ms RTT. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michal Wawrzoniak (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Ingo Müller (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Rodrigo Bruno (ETH Zurich; Oracle)
- 4. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wawrzoniak_cidr21,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '21},
title = {{Boxer: Data Analytics on Network-enabled Serverless Platforms}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Wawrzoniak, Michal and Müller, Ingo and Bruno, Rodrigo and Alonso, Gustavo},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,549 | DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System | 2022 | VLDB | 7.3212765e-05 |
| 4,908 | Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.4488784e-05 |
| 7,114 | Serverless Data Science - Are We There Yet? A Case Study of Model Serving | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.6982359e-05 |
| 9,664 | Cost-efficiency and Performance Robustness in Serverless Data Exchange | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.240674e-05 |
| 9,913 | Adaptive data transformations for QaaS | 2025 | CIDR | 5.1955087e-05 |
| 10,121 | End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,236 | FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,112 | Off-the-shelf Data Analytics on Serverless | 2024 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,360 | Templating Shuffles | 2023 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 939 | Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00013083524 |
| 1,007 | Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00012691341 |
| 1,482 | Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010642079 |
| 1,784 | Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure | 2020 | SIGMOD | 9.7726335e-05 |
| 3,320 | Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna | 2019 | VLDB | 7.5223482e-05 |
| 4,311 | Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.7676144e-05 |
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