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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
0.00015156241
Overall Rank
649 | 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 0.00046249672
462 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017825062
543 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.00016588324
644 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015201984
742 Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014284689
928 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00013012601
955 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012856295
995 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.00012602141
1,192 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011555425
1,331 An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud 2010 SIGMOD 0.00010997846
1,349 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010940559
1,370 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010875068
1,448 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010601724
1,452 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010588622
1,585 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010136077
1,701 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8192785e-05
2,018 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1687512e-05
2,419 Towards Elastic Transactional Cloud Storage with Range Query Support 2010 VLDB 8.4818595e-05
2,922 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.8428159e-05
3,367 Modular Order-Preserving Encryption, Revisited 2015 SIGMOD 7.3545904e-05
4,058 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8134824e-05
4,346 Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems 2023 CIDR 6.6386388e-05
5,325 Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited 2009 VLDB 6.1643901e-05
5,821 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9660099e-05
5,935 Self-Organizing Data Containers 2022 CIDR 5.9251217e-05
5,982 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9096991e-05
6,652 Scalable Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores 2013 VLDB 5.7044375e-05
7,776 XQuery Reloaded 2009 VLDB 5.4386695e-05
8,616 Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? 2010 VLDB 5.2873183e-05
9,111 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.208561e-05
9,791 Partiqle: An Elastic SQL Engine over Key-Value Stores 2012 SIGMOD 5.115551e-05
10,605 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,991 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,630 DAX: A Widely Distributed Multi-tenant Storage Service for DBMS Hosting 2013 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
19 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00058631912
4,189 The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects 1992 SIGMOD 6.7369918e-05
5,184 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.2235544e-05
5,185 Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management 1996 SIGMOD 6.2235544e-05
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