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Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions

Summary: Systematic empirical study of data management in microservices via literature review, open-source apps, and a practitioner survey to map practice. Identifies core system-level challenges and proposes microservice-oriented database features. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h765b45e0a3abfd0e
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
7.7426337e-05
Overall Rank
3,021 | 79.69%
DOI
10.14778/3484224.3484232

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BibTeX Citation

@article{laigner_vldb21,
        title = {{Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions}},
        author = {Laigner, Rodrigo and Zhou, Yongluan and Salles, Marcos Antonio Vaz and Liu, Yijian and Kalinowski, Marcos},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {13},
        pages = {3348--3361},
        doi = {10.14778/3484224.3484232},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3484224.3484232},
        year = {2021}
}

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6,882 Modernization of Databases in the Cloud Era: Building Databases that Run like Legos 2023 VLDB 5.6569197e-05
7,345 PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads 2023 VLDB 5.5461882e-05
7,511 Epoxy: ACID Transactions Across Diverse Data Stores 2023 VLDB 5.5054703e-05
8,582 ScalarDB: Universal Transaction Manager for Polystores 2023 VLDB 5.3095579e-05
8,863 Transactions Make Debugging Easy 2023 CIDR 5.262266e-05
9,033 Stateful Entities: Object-oriented Cloud Applications as Distributed Dataflows 2023 CIDR 5.2335027e-05
10,082 DARQ Matter Binds Everything: Performant and Composable Cloud Programming via Resilient Steps 2023 SIGMOD 5.0830849e-05
10,892 Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,954 OMBench: Taming Data Management Requirements in Cloud-Native Applications 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,078 Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow 2025 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
11,199 Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,317 Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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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
63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038531147
66 Sagas 1987 SIGMOD 0.00038047495
1,947 Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions 2014 SIGMOD 9.3241479e-05
2,394 What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Concurrency Control Research 2017 SIGMOD 8.5295579e-05
3,198 Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity 2015 SIGMOD 7.5442646e-05
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