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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
0.00015208434
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 0.00046284649
459 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017856221
543 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.0001663263
641 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015255418
738 Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014334201
945 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012939225
950 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012895553
993 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.0001263917
1,194 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011586405
1,322 An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud 2010 SIGMOD 0.00011034098
1,339 The End of a Myth: Distributed Transactions Can Scale 2017 VLDB 0.00010975458
1,366 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00010912114
1,441 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010641542
1,447 Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters 2009 VLDB 0.00010627871
1,583 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.00010169494
1,695 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8556267e-05
2,008 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1988831e-05
2,411 Towards Elastic Transactional Cloud Storage with Range Query Support 2010 VLDB 8.5108707e-05
2,909 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.8721738e-05
3,357 Modular Order-Preserving Encryption, Revisited 2015 SIGMOD 7.3824757e-05
4,034 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8393244e-05
4,332 Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems 2023 CIDR 6.6587744e-05
5,303 Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited 2009 VLDB 6.1876809e-05
5,805 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9886376e-05
5,929 Self-Organizing Data Containers 2022 CIDR 5.9439349e-05
5,974 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.9305575e-05
6,638 Scalable Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores 2013 VLDB 5.7260553e-05
7,753 XQuery Reloaded 2009 VLDB 5.4592972e-05
8,589 Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? 2010 VLDB 5.3073557e-05
9,081 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.2283159e-05
9,754 Partiqle: An Elastic SQL Engine over Key-Value Stores 2012 SIGMOD 5.1349531e-05
10,528 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,921 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,581 DAX: A Widely Distributed Multi-tenant Storage Service for DBMS Hosting 2013 VLDB 4.9793485e-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 0.00058781151
4,169 The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects 1992 SIGMOD 6.7621027e-05
5,162 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.2467179e-05
5,163 Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management 1996 SIGMOD 6.2467179e-05
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