An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud

Summary: Comparative evaluation of cloud architectures for OLTP processing across major cloud services. Architectural diversity among vendors drives large cost–performance variation by workload, challenging one-size-fits-all cloud strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4276
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00015232301
Overall Rank: 933 | 93.52%
DOI: -

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340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
953	Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance	2010	VLDB	0.00015095431
1,544	Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: the Consumers’ Perspective	2011	CIDR	0.00011450594
1,987	TIRAMOLA: Elastic NoSQL Provisioning Through a Cloud Management Platform	2012	SIGMOD	9.8506975e-05
2,056	PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	9.6645763e-05
3,052	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.6507181e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7871241e-05
4,019	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	6.5238856e-05
4,828	Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	5.893685e-05
5,732	TcpRT: Instrument and Diagnostic Analysis System for Service Quality of Cloud Databases at Massive Scale in Real-time	2018	SIGMOD	5.3501728e-05
6,463	PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments	2014	SIGMOD	5.0533198e-05
10,418	TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
42	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00073498298
98	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050023808
541	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00020628043
720	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017615431
1,439	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00011964135

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