Codd's Relational Model
A foundational milestone from 1970 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Category · 7 papers · 2 articles
Classic papers
Foundational works that defined how we think about data and distributed computation — Codd, Lamport, Gray, Brewer.
Papers
7 foundational papers
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
A foundational milestone from 1978 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Access Path Selection in an RDBMS
A foundational milestone from 1979 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations
A foundational milestone from 1981 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
The Byzantine Generals Problem
A foundational milestone from 1982 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics
A foundational milestone from 1995 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Paxos Made Simple
A foundational milestone from 2001 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Blog articles
2 essays
Interview: 50 Years from Relational to Vector Databases
We're thrilled today to host Dr. Margaret Hollis, a distinguished independent database historian, to discuss the profound evolution of database systems over the last five decades. From the foundational theories of the re...
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Top 12 NoSQL Papers Every Engineer Should Read in 2026
Amazon's Dynamo paper introduced the industry to eventual consistency and consistent hashing as core principles for building distributed key-value stores that prioritize availability and partition tolerance. The system w...
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