Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure

Summary: Extends SQL Server to Internet-scale cloud service with SQL language support and ACID transactions. Scales via consistency domains across thousands of nodes, trading strict consistency for performance, with implementation, tradeoffs, and lessons. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4377
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00012591922
Overall Rank: 1,023 | 92.99%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807280

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Authors

1. David G. Campbell (Microsoft)
2. Gopal Kakivaya (Microsoft)
3. Nigel Ellis (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{campbell_sigmod10,
        title = {{Extreme Scale with Full SQL Language Support in Microsoft SQL Azure}},
        author = {Campbell, David G. and Kakivaya, Gopal and Ellis, Nigel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807280},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807280},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
57	Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.00040139242
379	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019611067
976	The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign	2016	VLDB	0.00012864533
1,267	Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore	2011	VLDB	0.0001140641
1,342	Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011098147
1,637	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.0001015538
1,850	Bolt-on Causal Consistency	2013	SIGMOD	9.6167827e-05
2,497	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.5020762e-05
2,889	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.9935046e-05
2,903	Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data	2011	CIDR	7.9761235e-05
3,026	Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities	2010	VLDB	7.8384865e-05
5,775	Walnut: A Unified Cloud Object Store	2012	SIGMOD	6.0923066e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718

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