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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Brian F. Cooper
- 2. Raghu Ramakrishnan
- 3. Utkarsh Srivastava
- 4. Adam Silberstein
- 5. Philip Bohannon
- 6. Hans-Arno Jacobsen
- 7. Nick Puz
- 8. Daniel Weaver
- 9. Ramana Yerneni
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 34 of 84 citing papers.
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
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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