A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System
Summary: Proposes DBOS: an OS stack for hyperscale datacenters that embeds multi-core, multi-node distributed DBMSs as low-level system services to manage machines and resources. Describes architecture and implementation progress, highlighting missing DBMS capabilities and future research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Qian Li
- 2. Peter Kraft
- 3. Kostis Kaffes
- 4. Athinagoras Skiadopoulos
- 5. Deeptaanshu Kumar
- 6. Jason Li
- 7. Michael Cafarella
- 8. Goetz Graefe
- 9. Jeremy Kepner
- 10. Christos Kozyrakis
- 11. Michael Stonebraker
- 12. Lalith Suresh
- 13. Matei Zaharia
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,927 | Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware | 2024 | VLDB | 4.6136219e-05 |
| 8,128 | Lotus: Scalable Multi-Partition Transactions on Single-Threaded Partitioned Databases | 2022 | VLDB | 4.5785914e-05 |
| 8,663 | Transactions Make Debugging Easy | 2023 | CIDR | 4.4722808e-05 |
| 10,193 | Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,336 | Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow | 2025 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | The Case for Learned Index Structures | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00049545203 |
| 514 | An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.0002124895 |
| 1,092 | E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00014135961 |
| 1,827 | An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems | 2021 | VLDB | 0.00010390548 |
| 3,688 | DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System | 2022 | VLDB | 6.8414694e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,247 | Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers | 2020 | CIDR | 6.325596e-05 |
| 12,397 | DObjects: Enabling Distributed Data Services for Metacomputing Platforms | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 14,287 | Evaluating multiple server DBMS in general purpose operating system environments | 1984 | VLDB | - |
| 12,614 | The Database Machine: Old Story, New Slant? | 2003 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 9,598 | Towards Database Virtualization for Database as a Service | 2013 | VLDB | 4.3191659e-05 |
| 7,927 | Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware | 2024 | VLDB | 4.6136219e-05 |
| 6,953 | COD: Database / Operating System Co-Design | 2013 | CIDR | 4.8882519e-05 |
| 9,185 | Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.3792034e-05 |
| 9,184 | OSDB: Exposing the Operating System's Inner Database | 2025 | CIDR | 4.3792034e-05 |
| 3,688 | DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System | 2022 | VLDB | 6.8414694e-05 |