ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time
Summary: ESDB uses dynamic secondary hashing to tame extremely skewed real-time workloads in a cloud-native document store. Five-year Alibaba Cloud deployment for a mega e-commerce platform; boosts write throughput and lowers completion time without harming query throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jiachi Zhang (Alibaba; Georgetown University)
- 2. Shi Cheng (Alibaba)
- 3. Zhihui Xue (Alibaba)
- 4. Jianjun Deng (Alibaba)
- 5. Cuiyun Fu (Alibaba)
- 6. Wenchao Zhou (Alibaba)
- 7. Sheng Wang (Alibaba)
- 8. Changcheng Chen (Alibaba)
- 9. Feifei Li (Alibaba)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod22,
title = {{ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time}},
author = {Zhang, Jiachi and Cheng, Shi and Xue, Zhihui and Deng, Jianjun and Fu, Cuiyun and Zhou, Wenchao and Wang, Sheng and Chen, Changcheng and Li, Feifei},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526051},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526051},
year = {2022}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,840 | Migration-Free Elastic Storage of Time Series in Apache IoTDB | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00082404462 |
| 156 | An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00028636811 |
| 208 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00024968157 |
| 480 | Nonblocking Commit Protocols | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00017789222 |
| 741 | Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00014442062 |
| 887 | E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013403455 |
| 902 | Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00013328979 |
| 4,632 | LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.5938641e-05 |
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