Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

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 …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Spanner is Google's scalable, multiversion, globally distributed, and synchronously
replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support …

We introduce a simple data model and API tailored for serving the social graph, and TAO, an
implementation of this model. TAO is a geographically distributed data store that provides …

Geo-replicated, distributed data stores that support complex online applications, such as
social networks, must provide an" always-on" experience where operations always complete …

Online services distribute and replicate state across geographically diverse data centers and
direct user requests to the closest or least loaded site. While effectively ensuring low latency …

By offering storage services in several geographically distributed data centers, cloud
computing platforms enable applications to offer low latency access to user data. However …

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

We present the first scalable, geo-replicated storage system that guarantees low latency,
offers a rich data model, and provides “stronger” semantics. Namely, all client requests are …