Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities

Summary: Survey of cloud-native databases (DBaaS) with OLTP/OLAP taxonomies and techniques like compute-storage disaggregation and log-as-database. Reviews storage, processing, analytics, replication, serverless, recovery, and security, and outlines challenges and opportunities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9f4308690fd99e7e
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.3809781e-05
Overall Rank: 8,068 | 45.92%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554893
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
2. Haowen Dong (Tsinghua University)
3. Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb22,
        title = {{Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities}},
        author = {Li, Guoliang and Dong, Haowen and Zhang, Chao},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3758--3761},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554893},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554893},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,192	PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba	2023	SIGMOD	6.2209024e-05
5,533	HyBench: A New Benchmark for HTAP Databases	2024	VLDB	6.0777541e-05
6,612	GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation	2024	VLDB	5.7175793e-05
8,662	PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking	2025	VLDB	5.2781431e-05
8,825	PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation	2024	SIGMOD	5.2543246e-05
9,989	CloudJump II: Optimizing Cloud Databases for Shared Storage	2025	SIGMOD	5.0845476e-05
10,348	AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud	2025	VLDB	5.0195882e-05
10,730	Making LSM-Tree-based Key-Value Store Practical and Efficient for Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud Databases	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,000	Seron: Smart Query Router for Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Databases with Shared Storage	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041439488
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038609177
543	Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	0.00016588324
651	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00015126716
913	Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013084137
1,134	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	0.00011863043
1,315	PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers	2021	SIGMOD	0.00011047549
1,392	Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010787433
1,422	Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010698141
1,938	Elastic Machine Learning Algorithms in Amazon SageMaker	2020	SIGMOD	9.3316919e-05
2,523	Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation	2022	VLDB	8.3316032e-05
2,654	Towards Cost-Effective and Elastic Cloud Database Deployment via Memory Disaggregation	2021	VLDB	8.1466759e-05
2,679	Taurus Database: How to be Fast, Available, and Frugal in the Cloud	2020	SIGMOD	8.1228765e-05
2,913	AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI	2021	SIGMOD	7.855786e-05
3,005	Sharing Buffer Pool Memory in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2015	VLDB	7.7460817e-05
3,404	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	7.3212594e-05
3,649	The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract)	2021	VLDB	7.1172165e-05
3,687	openGauss: An Autonomous Database System	2021	VLDB	7.0797286e-05
3,783	HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next	2022	SIGMOD	7.0016354e-05
4,765	Machine Learning for Databases	2021	VLDB	6.4166895e-05

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