Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow
Summary: Argues that deterministic transactional protocols + streaming dataflow execution form a suitable substrate for cloud transactional apps, avoiding ad-hoc app-level transaction plumbing. Presents Styx, a streaming-dataflow transactional runtime with an object-oriented API that yields scalable, fault-tolerant, serializable cloud applications. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kyriakos Psarakis (Delft University of Technology)
- 2. George Christodoulou (Delft University of Technology)
- 3. Marios Fragkoulis (Delft University of Technology)
- 4. Asterios Katsifodimos (Delft University of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{psarakis_cidr25,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '25},
title = {{Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Psarakis, Kyriakos and Christodoulou, George and Fragkoulis, Marios and Katsifodimos, Asterios},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 11,199 | Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,392 | Styx in Action: Transactional Cloud Applications Made Easy | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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