Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage

Summary: Near-data processing for database engines by offloading computation to storage nodes. Caribou is an intelligent distributed storage layer that provides line-rate near-data processing over a DRAM/NVRAM key-value interface with replication, reducing bandwidth, latency, and power through microserver design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0554c287b7544ac5
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.3722461e-05
Overall Rank: 4,868 | 67.29%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137632
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Authors

1. Zsolt István (ETH Zurich)
2. David Sidler (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{istvan_vldb17,
        title = {{Caribou: Intelligent Distributed Storage}},
        author = {István, Zsolt and Sidler, David and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1202--1215},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137632},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137632},
        year = {2017}
}

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365	Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash	2011	CIDR	0.00019935521
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1,139	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001185547
1,242	BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011378275
1,576	F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business	2012	SIGMOD	0.00010187087
1,583	On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases	2015	SIGMOD	0.00010165157
1,589	YourSQL: A High-Performance Database System Leveraging In-Storage Computing	2016	VLDB	0.00010134884
1,779	Ibex—An Intelligent Storage Engine with Support for Advanced SQL Off-loading	2014	VLDB	9.6575635e-05
2,368	BlueCache: A Scalable Distributed Flash-based Key-value Store	2017	VLDB	8.5607623e-05
3,124	Analytics in Motion: High Performance Event-Processing AND Real-Time Analytics in the Same Database	2015	SIGMOD	7.6222513e-05
3,828	Complex Event Detection at Wire Speed with FPGAs	2010	VLDB	6.994666e-05
3,870	Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing	2012	SIGMOD	6.9534718e-05
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4,932	FPGA-based Data Partitioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.3455411e-05
5,954	The Necessary Death of the Block Device Interface	2013	CIDR	5.933204e-05
8,371	Accelerating Pattern Matching Queries in Hybrid CPU-FPGA Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.3435334e-05
8,583	Histograms as a Side Effect of Data Movement for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	5.3086664e-05

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