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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
0.00044066403
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 0.00038531147
123 Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning 2010 VLDB 0.00030762995
139 Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services 2011 CIDR 0.00029480065
185 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00026072278
236 LinkBench: a Database Benchmark Based on the Facebook Social Graph 2013 SIGMOD 0.00023671522
258 bLSM: A General Purpose Log Structured Merge Tree 2012 SIGMOD 0.00022939599
365 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.00019941855
641 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015255418
807 Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems 2015 VLDB 0.00013778758
893 Albatross: Lightweight Elasticity in Shared Storage Databases for the Cloud using Live Data Migration 2011 VLDB 0.00013220089
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1,573 Carousel: Low-Latency Transaction Processing for Globally-Distributed Data 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010197084
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1,693 Aria: A Fast and Practical Deterministic OLTP Database 2020 VLDB 9.8567076e-05
1,695 Bolt-on Causal Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 9.8556267e-05
1,701 Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users' Event Feeds 2010 SIGMOD 9.8371359e-05
1,704 SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replicated Transactions 2019 VLDB 9.8314656e-05
1,947 Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions 2014 SIGMOD 9.3241479e-05
2,008 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.1988831e-05
2,013 On Brewing Fresh Espresso: LinkedIn’s Distributed Data Serving Platform 2013 SIGMOD 9.1862445e-05
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2,261 Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: the Consumers’ Perspective 2011 CIDR 8.7336351e-05
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2,451 The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis 2015 SIGMOD 8.4467767e-05
2,509 Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit 2013 VLDB 8.3705575e-05
2,766 LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 8.0432817e-05
2,909 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.8721738e-05
3,019 Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases 2009 SIGMOD 7.7461391e-05
3,275 ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications 2018 VLDB 7.4691437e-05
3,310 Rethinking Eventual Consistency 2013 SIGMOD 7.4405091e-05
3,435 Implementation of Cluster-wide Logical Clock and Causal Consistency in MongoDB 2019 SIGMOD 7.3016365e-05
3,556 WANalytics: Analytics for a Geo-Distributed Data-Intensive World 2015 CIDR 7.2084485e-05
3,560 Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Data 2009 CIDR 7.2072209e-05
3,639 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.1444069e-05
3,717 Enabling the Next Generation of Multi-Region Applications with CockroachDB 2022 SIGMOD 7.0723943e-05
3,787 Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management 2012 VLDB 7.0207119e-05
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4,085 TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency 2016 SIGMOD 6.815237e-05
4,343 Minimizing Commit Latency of Transactions in Geo-Replicated Data Stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.6508015e-05
4,394 WANalytics: Geo-Distributed Analytics for a Data Intensive World 2015 SIGMOD 6.618384e-05
4,395 Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing 2020 SIGMOD 6.6164558e-05
4,643 Where in the World is My Data? 2011 VLDB 6.4891582e-05
4,772 LogKV: Exploiting Key-Value Stores for Event Log Processing 2013 CIDR 6.4229185e-05
4,997 Detock: High Performance Multi-region Transactions at Scale 2023 SIGMOD 6.3216631e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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 0.001052036
381 Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion 2007 CIDR 0.00019491561
572 Querying the Internet with PIER 2003 VLDB 0.00016196998
775 Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation 2006 VLDB 0.00014081697
1,168 Fast Algorithms for Maintaining Replica Consistency in Lazy Master Replicated Databases 1999 VLDB 0.00011729718
3,639 Efficient Bulk Insertion into a Distributed Ordered Table 2008 SIGMOD 7.1444069e-05
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