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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
4338
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00011071078
Overall Rank
1,348 | 90.76%
DOI
10.1145/1807167.1807231

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kossmann_sigmod10,
        title = {{An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud}},
        author = {Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim and Loesing, Simon},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807231},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807231},
        year = {2010}
}

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79 XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management 2002 VLDB 0.00036555628
662 Building a Database on S3 2008 SIGMOD 0.00015176173
667 A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems 1990 VLDB 0.00015166269
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