Loom: A Closed-Box Disaggregated Database System
Fábio Coelho, Ana Nunes Alonso, Luís Ferreira, José Pereira, Rui Oliveira · 2023
Cloud native database systems provide highly available and scalable services as part of cloud platforms by transparently replicating and partitioning data across automatically managed resources. Some systems, such as Google Spanner, are designed and implemented from scratch. Others, such as Amazon Aurora, derive from traditional database systems for better compatibility but disaggregate storage to cloud services. Unfortunately, because they follow an open-box approach and fork the original code base, they are difficult to implement and maintain.