On Brewing Fresh Espresso: LinkedIn’s Distributed Data Serving Platform

Summary: Espresso: LinkedIn's scalable, document-oriented store with cross-document transactions, real-time indexing, on-the-fly schema evolution, and timeline-consistent change capture. Innovations include a generic distributed cluster manager, partition-aware change capture, and a high-performance inverted index, with empirical results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4706
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00010320369
Overall Rank: 1,853 | 87.12%
DOI: -

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7,207	Kodiak: Leveraging Materialized Views For Very Low-Latency Analytics Over High-Dimensional Web-Scale Data	2016	VLDB	4.800763e-05
7,998	Data Management for Social Networking	2016	PODS	4.6101889e-05
8,926	Gobblin: Unifying Data Ingestion for Hadoop	2015	VLDB	4.427232e-05
9,239	Efficient Algorithms for Pseudoarboricity Computation in Large Static and Dynamic Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
9,998	Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,081	Towards Millions of Database Transmission Services in the Cloud	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,803	Quaestor: Query Web Caching for Database-as-a-Service Providers	2017	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,861	Comdb2: Bloomberg’s Highly Available Relational Database System	2016	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00066144767
189	Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services	2011	CIDR	0.00035925334
890	F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business	2012	SIGMOD	0.00015570935

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