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On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases
Summary: Decouples storage from query processing and shares data across nodes, enabling scalable, workload-agnostic distributed relational databases. Mitigates synchronization overhead with scalable transaction processing, efficient data access, and buffering.
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Paper ID
h76059b593dfd63cc
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00010136077
Overall Rank
1,585 | 89.38%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2751519
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{loesing_sigmod15,
title = {{On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases}},
author = {Loesing, Simon and Pilman, Markus and Etter, Thomas and Kossmann, Donald},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2751519},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2751519},
year = {2015}
}
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