FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
Summary: FoundationDB Record Layer is a multitenant, record-oriented datastore on FoundationDB, with schema management and nested indexes. Stateless and tenant-isolated, it scales to billions of databases; CloudKit powers hundreds of millions of users with richer APIs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christos Chrysafis
- 2. Ben Collins
- 3. Scott Dugas
- 4. Jay Dunkelberger
- 5. Moussa Ehsan
- 6. Scott Gray
- 7. Alec Grieser
- 8. Ori Herrnstadt
- 9. Kfir Lev-Ari
- 10. Tao Lin
- 11. Mike McMahon
- 12. Nicholas Schiefer
- 13. Alexander Shraer
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00025750338 |
| 3,011 | FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.716566e-05 |
| 11,492 | QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit | 2021 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0040465394 |
| 54 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.0006582344 |
| 176 | The Dangers of Replication and a Solution | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.0003818552 |
| 189 | Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00035934191 |
| 208 | Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00034478612 |
| 679 | Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00018211621 |
| 1,008 | Spanner: Becoming a SQL System | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00014663067 |
| 1,669 | Amazon DynamoDB: A Seamlessly Scalable Non-relational Datastore | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00010945299 |
| 2,247 | Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.201975e-05 |
| 13,340 | CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications | 2018 | VLDB | - |
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