Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

We describe the design and implementation of FaRM, a new main memory distributed
computing platform that exploits RDMA to improve both latency and throughput by an order …

In this paper, we describe ZooKeeper, a service for coordinating processes of distributed
applications. Since ZooKeeper is part of critical infrastructure, ZooKeeper aims to provide a …

Transactions with strong consistency and high availability simplify building and reasoning
about distributed systems. However, previous implementations performed poorly. This …

We present DrTM, a fast in-memory transaction processing system that exploits advanced
hardware features (ie, RDMA and HTM) to improve latency and throughput by over one …

This paper describes Haystack, an object storage system optimized for Facebook's Photos
application. Facebook currently stores over 260 billion images, which translates to over 20 …

Computations performed by graph algorithms are data driven, and require a high degree of
random data access. Despite the great progresses made in disk technology, it still cannot …

We describe PNUTS, a massively parallel and geographically distributed database system
for Yahoo!'s web applications. PNUTS provides data storage organized as hashed or …

Updating an index of the web as documents are crawled requires continuously transforming
a large repository of existing documents as new documents arrive. This task is one example …

Application programmers increasingly prefer distributed storage systems with strong
consistency and distributed transactions (eg, Google's Spanner) for their strong guarantees …