PNUTS to Sherpa
Brian F. Cooper, P. P. S. Narayan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Utkarsh Srivastava, Adam Silberstein, Philip Bohannon, Hans‐Arno Jacobsen, Nick Puz, Daniel Weaver, Ramana Yerneni · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2019
In this paper, we look back at the evolution of Yahoo!'s geo-replicated cloud data store from a research project called PNUTS to a globally deployed production system called Sherpa, share some of the lessons learned along the way, and finally, compare PNUTS with current operational cloud stores.