Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos
Summary: A vision for Lego-like cloud databases: modular, adaptive, reliable, and AI-augmented. It frames modernization around cloud-native architecture, orchestration integration, data-fabric co-design, and PolarDB as a case study. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Feifei Li (Alibaba)
BibTeX Citation
@article{li_vldb23,
title = {{Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos}},
author = {Li, Feifei},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {12},
pages = {4140--4151},
doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611639},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611639},
year = {2023}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,723 | Shapley Value Estimation Based on Differential Matrix | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.1349531e-05 |
| 9,953 | Hermes: Off-the-Shelf Real-Time Transactional Analytics | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1038322e-05 |
| 10,125 | End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure | 2026 | CIDR | 5.0751052e-05 |
| 10,414 | ASSS: Adaptive Stratified Sampling for Shapley-like Values | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 10,833 | BtrLog: Low-Latency Logging for Cloud Database Systems | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 10,911 | Hermes at Scale: Powering Distributed Queries with a Unified Memory Fabric | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,382 | Streaming View: An Efficient Data Processing Engine for Modern Real-time Data Warehouse of Alibaba Cloud | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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