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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Brian F. Cooper (Yahoo)
- 2. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)
- 3. Utkarsh Srivastava (Yahoo)
- 4. Adam Silberstein (Yahoo)
- 5. Philip Bohannon (Yahoo)
- 6. Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto; Yahoo)
- 7. Nick Puz (Yahoo)
- 8. Daniel Weaver (Yahoo)
- 9. Ramana Yerneni (Yahoo)
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}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 | 0.0010494385 |
| 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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