New Directions in Cloud Programming

Summary: Introduces PACT (Program semantics, Availability, Consistency, Targets of optimization) as a unifying abstraction to expose and manage distributed tradeoffs. Advocates lifting existing code to a declarative PACT layer and a multi-stage compiler that emits human-readable, hand-tunable code for gradual migration and research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 415
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.4101976e-05
Overall Rank: 5,614 | 60.95%
DOI: -

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7,990	Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD	2024	VLDB	4.6117441e-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
9,973	End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
9,979	Event Horizon: Asymmetric Dependencies for Fast Geo-Distributed Operations	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,336	Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow	2025	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,509	Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,300	Towards Auto-Generated Data Systems	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
115	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00046221215
158	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00040071492
924	Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	2019	CIDR	0.00015272958
1,028	Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00014584518
1,210	Building on Quicksand	2009	CIDR	0.00013260838
1,310	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00012658593
1,374	Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking	2011	PODS	0.0001230835
1,632	Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service	2020	VLDB	0.0001107213
2,513	Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance	2016	VLDB	8.6178149e-05
2,659	Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization	2015	VLDB	8.3604734e-05
2,723	The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis	2015	SIGMOD	8.2306728e-05
2,867	StatusQuo: Making Familiar Abstractions Perform Using Program Analysis	2013	CIDR	7.9831651e-05
3,069	Evita Raced: Metacompilation for Declarative Networks	2008	VLDB	7.6151182e-05
3,308	Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications	2012	VLDB	7.2422925e-05
4,034	TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency	2016	SIGMOD	6.5094325e-05
4,586	Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing	2020	SIGMOD	6.0658825e-05
4,677	Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications	2018	SIGMOD	6.0047822e-05
5,464	A.M.B.R.O.S.I.A: Providing Performant Virtual Resiliency for Distributed Applications	2020	VLDB	5.4933659e-05
7,175	Interactive Checks for Coordination Avoidance	2019	VLDB	4.8107192e-05
9,819	Generating Application-Specific Data Layouts for In-memory Databases	2019	VLDB	4.2774401e-05
11,491	A Client-centric Approach to Transactional Datastores	2021	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,587	Demonstration of Chestnut: An In-memory Data Layout Designer for Database Applications	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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