Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow

Summary: Argues that deterministic transactional protocols + streaming dataflow execution form a suitable substrate for cloud transactional apps, avoiding ad-hoc app-level transaction plumbing. Presents Styx, a streaming-dataflow transactional runtime with an object-oriented API that yields scalable, fault-tolerant, serializable cloud applications. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 552
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,336 | 28.10%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,509	Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,799	Styx in Action: Transactional Cloud Applications Made Easy	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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812	A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00016408423
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2,369	Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database	2020	VLDB	8.9490403e-05
3,005	Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas	2017	VLDB	7.7303579e-05
3,431	Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions	2021	VLDB	7.1008172e-05
4,044	Megaphone: Latency-conscious state migration for distributed streaming dataflows	2019	VLDB	6.4995312e-05
5,614	New Directions in Cloud Programming	2021	CIDR	5.4101976e-05
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6,698	Netherite: Efficient Execution of Serverless Workflows	2022	VLDB	4.9573729e-05
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