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PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform

Summary: PNUTS is Yahoo!'s hosted, geographically distributed data platform for web apps, with hashed or ordered tables and low-latency, high-concurrency access. It provides per-record consistency guarantees, automated load balancing and failover, and scalable table storage/replication, demonstrated in production with experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9754
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0006582344
Overall Rank
54 | 99.63%
DOI
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208 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00034478612
281 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.00029084275
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379 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00024954332
521 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.0002114053
664 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.0001846313
883 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00015581085
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1,418 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00012082141
1,439 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00011956201
1,541 Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: the Consumers’ Perspective 2011 CIDR 0.00011449679
1,838 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010353323
1,858 On Brewing Fresh Espresso: LinkedIn’s Distributed Data Serving Platform 2013 SIGMOD 0.00010311085
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3,095 Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases 2009 SIGMOD 7.5775325e-05
3,272 Rethinking Eventual Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 7.290716e-05
3,437 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.0930413e-05
3,560 Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management 2012 VLDB 6.9705279e-05
3,654 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 6.87251e-05
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4,043 TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency 2016 SIGMOD 6.5034165e-05
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4,583 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.0600815e-05
4,771 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 5.928282e-05
5,051 Performance Guarantees for Distributed Reachability Queries 2012 VLDB 5.7267112e-05
5,187 Yugong: Geo-Distributed Data and Job Placement at Scale 2019 VLDB 5.6351231e-05
5,367 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 5.5461097e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024217964
298 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00028556426
412 Querying the Internet with PIER 2003 VLDB 0.00023852999
591 Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation 2006 VLDB 0.00019545141
795 Fast Algorithms for Maintaining Replica Consistency in Lazy Master Replicated Databases 1999 VLDB 0.00016560364
3,437 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.0930413e-05
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