OSDB: Exposing the Operating System's Inner Database
Summary: Expose OS kernel state through a relational interface and support incremental adoption on production OSes, replacing ad-hoc query mechanisms with declarative queries. OSDB prototype shows the data model, concurrency control, four real use cases, and low overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Robert Soulé (Yale University)
- 2. George Neville-Neil (Yale University)
- 3. Stelios Kasouridis (Yale University)
- 4. Alex Yuan (Yale University)
- 5. Avi Silberschatz (Yale University)
- 6. Peter Alvaro (University of California Santa Cruz)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{soule_cidr25,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '25},
title = {{OSDB: Exposing the Operating System's Inner Database}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Soulé, Robert and Neville-Neil, George and Kasouridis, Stelios and Yuan, Alex and Silberschatz, Avi and Alvaro, Peter},
year = {2025}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,022 | BPF-DB: A Kernel-Embedded Transactional Database Management System For eBPF Applications | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.2349846e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00012607089 |
| 3,463 | DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System | 2022 | VLDB | 7.2821994e-05 |
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