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: 4277
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00015228565
Overall Rank: 931 | 93.54%
DOI: -

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339	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026895683
950	Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance	2010	VLDB	0.00015100872
1,541	Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: the Consumers’ Perspective	2011	CIDR	0.00011449679
1,991	TIRAMOLA: Elastic NoSQL Provisioning Through a Cloud Management Platform	2012	SIGMOD	9.8422463e-05
2,062	PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	9.654149e-05
3,055	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.6478224e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7850001e-05
4,031	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	6.5136841e-05
4,833	Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	5.8881564e-05
5,740	TcpRT: Instrument and Diagnostic Analysis System for Service Quality of Cloud Databases at Massive Scale in Real-time	2018	SIGMOD	5.3451127e-05
6,437	PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments	2014	SIGMOD	5.0554119e-05
10,428	TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
42	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00073570328
99	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00050043993
540	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00020612885
715	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017636409
1,439	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00011956201

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