Building on Quicksand
Summary: Argues that with larger unreliable components, asynchronous state capture—primaries ack before backups—renders guarantees probabilistic and forces idempotent, retryable steps. Surveys probabilistic-execution and eventual-consistency patterns and outlines platform design directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Pat Helland (Microsoft)
- 2. Dave Campbell (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{helland_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Building on Quicksand}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Helland, Pat and Campbell, Dave},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,019 | Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 2019 | CIDR | 0.00012454501 |
| 1,248 | Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00011347831 |
| 1,442 | Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010636513 |
| 2,708 | Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums | 2012 | VLDB | 8.1033264e-05 |
| 5,386 | New Directions in Cloud Programming | 2021 | CIDR | 6.1521989e-05 |
| 5,493 | Keep CALM and CRDT On | 2023 | VLDB | 6.1066893e-05 |
| 6,514 | PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.7570121e-05 |
| 6,700 | IPA: Invariant-Preserving Applications for Weakly Consistent Replicated Databases | 2019 | VLDB | 5.7035574e-05 |
| 7,793 | Transactional Intent | 2011 | CIDR | 5.4506612e-05 |
| 12,190 | Performance in the Spotlight | 2019 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 12,517 | Engagements: Building Eventually ACiD Business Transactions | 2013 | CIDR | 4.9769913e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 381 | Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion | 2007 | CIDR | 0.0001948344 |
| 2,633 | Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach | 1984 | VLDB | 8.1980985e-05 |
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