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Building a Database on S3

Summary: Evaluates Amazon S3 as a storage substrate for general-purpose databases with small objects and frequent updates. Presents read/write/commit protocols and analyzes cost, performance, and consistency tradeoffs for S3 as a DB backend. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
he37194cfcbf662e0
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00015201469
Overall Rank
647 | 95.66%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376645

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brantner_sigmod08,
        title = {{Building a Database on S3}},
        author = {Brantner, Matthias and Florescu, Daniela and Graf, David and Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376645},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376645},
        year = {2008}
}

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40 The Case for Learned Index Structures 2018 SIGMOD 0.00046363107
460 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017850215
543 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.00016624903
641 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015248402
739 Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014327549
945 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012933247
950 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012889569
993 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.00012633413
1,194 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011581268
1,322 An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud 2010 SIGMOD 0.00011029244
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.0001097043
1,366 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010908555
1,442 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010636513
1,447 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010622872
1,583 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010165157
1,695 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8510025e-05
2,009 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1949132e-05
2,412 Towards Elastic Transactional Cloud Storage with Range Query Support 2010 VLDB 8.5070443e-05
2,911 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.8685228e-05
3,357 Modular Order-Preserving Encryption, Revisited 2015 SIGMOD 7.3789811e-05
4,036 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8360867e-05
4,332 Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems 2023 CIDR 6.6556222e-05
5,306 Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited 2009 VLDB 6.1848351e-05
5,806 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9858027e-05
5,929 Self-Organizing Data Containers 2022 CIDR 5.9411211e-05
5,973 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9281867e-05
6,642 Scalable Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores 2013 VLDB 5.7233463e-05
7,759 XQuery Reloaded 2009 VLDB 5.4567128e-05
8,596 Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? 2010 VLDB 5.3048464e-05
9,091 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.2258409e-05
9,759 Partiqle: An Elastic SQL Engine over Key-Value Stores 2012 SIGMOD 5.1325223e-05
10,539 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,930 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,587 DAX: A Widely Distributed Multi-tenant Storage Service for DBMS Hosting 2013 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
19 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00058759613
4,169 The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects 1992 SIGMOD 6.7589212e-05
5,163 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.2437803e-05
5,164 Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management 1996 SIGMOD 6.2437803e-05
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