Ambry: LinkedIn's Scalable Geo-Distributed Object Store

Summary: Ambry is LinkedIn's geo-distributed object store for large immutable blobs, with a decentralized design and logical blob grouping. Asynchronous replication, rebalancing, zero-cost failure detection, and OS caching enable high throughput and low latency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5198
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.5682094e-05
Overall Rank: 8,164 | 43.27%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2903738

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,339	Samza: Stateful Scalable Stream Processing at LinkedIn	2017	VLDB	9.0029559e-05
4,594	Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?	2018	VLDB	6.055261e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
54	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.0006582344

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