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FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store

Summary: Unbundled distributed KV store: separate in-memory txn mgmt, storage, and config for scalable ACID transactions. A deterministic fault-simulation framework enables rapid testing; its minimal feature set supports diverse layers atop FoundationDB (docs, graphs, semi-relational), powering Apple/Snowflake deployments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6310
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
8.5354086e-05
Overall Rank
2,469 | 83.07%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3457559

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhou_sigmod21,
        title = {{FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store}},
        author = {Zhou, Jingyu and Xu, Meng and Shraer, Alexander and Namasivayam, Bala and Miller, Alex and Tschannen, Evan and Atherton, Steve and Beamon, Andrew J. and Sears, Rusty and Leach, John and Rosenthal, Dave and Dong, Xin and Wilson, Will and Collins, Ben and Scherer, David and Grieser, Alec and Liu, Young and Moore, Alvin and Muppana, Bhaskar and Su, Xiaoge and Yadav, Vishesh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457559},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457559},
        year = {2021}
}

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5,900 Fine-Grained Re-Execution for Efficient Batched Commit of Distributed Transactions 2023 VLDB 6.0468661e-05
6,386 Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management 2022 VLDB 5.8899805e-05
6,418 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.8819368e-05
6,916 Polaris: Enabling Transaction Priority in Optimistic Concurrency Control 2023 SIGMOD 5.7401967e-05
7,072 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.7107965e-05
7,686 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.5676271e-05
8,696 Transactions Make Debugging Easy 2023 CIDR 5.3830471e-05
8,966 The Five-Minute Rule for the Cloud: Caching in Analytics Systems 2025 CIDR 5.3430119e-05
9,064 What's the Difference? Incremental Processing with Change Queries in Snowflake 2023 SIGMOD 5.3251649e-05
10,234 Epoch-based Optimistic Concurrency Control in Geo-replicated Databases 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,321 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,889 Concurrency Control as a Service 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
10,976 TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
10,997 The HANA Native Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,008 FDBKeeper: Enabling Scalable Coordination Services for Metadata Management using Distributed Key-Value Databases 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,298 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,454 R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications 2023 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,686 QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit 2021 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Showing 21 of 21 cited papers.

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38 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00047648573
47 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00044503718
57 Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems 2012 SIGMOD 0.00040139242
68 The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) 2007 VLDB 0.00038446206
73 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00037333356
208 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00024968157
379 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.00019611067
392 Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL 1998 VLDB 0.00019342814
1,000 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.000127281
1,283 PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database 2018 VLDB 0.00011337934
1,463 Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010700936
1,480 Write-Behind Logging 2017 VLDB 0.00010649376
1,637 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001015538
2,614 Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services 2009 VLDB 8.3430507e-05
2,903 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.9761235e-05
3,082 Analytics in Motion: High Performance Event-Processing AND Real-Time Analytics in the Same Database 2015 SIGMOD 7.7725834e-05
4,111 A genetic approach for random testing of database systems 2007 VLDB 6.8945321e-05
6,034 Taking Omid to the Clouds: Fast, Scalable Transactions for Real-Time Cloud Analytics 2018 VLDB 5.9996668e-05
7,735 FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore 2019 SIGMOD 5.5560093e-05
11,686 QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit 2021 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
13,528 CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications 2018 VLDB -
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