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PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform

Summary: PNUTS is Yahoo!'s hosted, geographically distributed data platform for web apps, with hashed or ordered tables and low-latency, high-concurrency access. It provides per-record consistency guarantees, automated load balancing and failover, and scalable table storage/replication, demonstrated in production with experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hf5480dd8b43a8af5
Venue
VLDB
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00043937456
Overall Rank
47 | 99.69%
DOI
10.14778/1454159.1454182

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{cooper_vldb08,
        title = {{PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform}},
        author = {Cooper, Brian F. and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Srivastava, Utkarsh and Silberstein, Adam and Bohannon, Philip and Jacobsen, Hans-Arno and Puz, Nick and Weaver, Daniel and Yerneni, Ramana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1277--1288},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454182},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454182},
        year = {2008}
}

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63 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00038609177
122 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030701814
139 Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services 2011 CIDR 0.00029386971
186 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00026001543
238 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.00023594951
261 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022862412
365 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.00019904414
644 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015201984
807 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013734149
895 Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration 2011 VLDB 0.0001317406
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1,625 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010028153
1,655 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 9.9502338e-05
1,701 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8192785e-05
1,705 Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users' Event Feeds 2010 SIGMOD 9.8056169e-05
1,710 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.797642e-05
1,952 Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions 2014 SIGMOD 9.2989778e-05
2,018 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1687512e-05
2,026 On Brewing Fresh Espresso: LinkedIn’s Distributed Data Serving Platform 2013 SIGMOD 9.1520193e-05
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2,277 Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: the Consumers’ Perspective 2011 CIDR 8.7010392e-05
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2,455 The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis 2015 SIGMOD 8.4213386e-05
2,512 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.3474334e-05
2,775 LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 8.0140752e-05
2,922 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.8428159e-05
3,029 Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases 2009 SIGMOD 7.7174537e-05
3,287 ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications 2018 VLDB 7.4411317e-05
3,300 Rethinking Eventual Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 7.4253314e-05
3,448 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.2745918e-05
3,563 Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Data 2009 CIDR 7.1841298e-05
3,565 WANalytics: Analytics for a Geo-Distributed Data-Intensive World 2015 CIDR 7.183429e-05
3,647 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.1176467e-05
3,726 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 7.0457523e-05
3,791 Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management 2012 VLDB 6.997099e-05
3,990 Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations 2015 VLDB 6.8609004e-05
4,110 TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency 2016 SIGMOD 6.7895288e-05
4,365 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.6262833e-05
4,416 WANalytics: Geo-Distributed Analytics for a Data Intensive World 2015 SIGMOD 6.5933768e-05
4,417 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.591509e-05
4,663 Where in the World is My Data? 2011 VLDB 6.4647309e-05
4,796 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 6.3990791e-05
5,024 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.2984992e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010494385
384 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00019432779
575 Querying the Internet with PIER 2003 VLDB 0.0001613973
781 Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation 2006 VLDB 0.00014038257
1,168 Fast Algorithms for Maintaining Replica Consistency in Lazy Master Replicated Databases 1999 VLDB 0.00011696293
3,647 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.1176467e-05
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