Publication of 'Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store'

Amazon engineers, including Giuseppe DeCandia and Werner Vogels, presented their seminal paper detailing the architecture of Dynamo, Amazon's internal distributed key-value store.

Significance

This paper was a landmark in distributed systems research. It openly shared Amazon's solution to building highly available, scalable systems, influencing the design of countless NoSQL databases and inspiring a generation of engineers to embrace eventual consistency and decentralized architectures.

Key facts

Date
2007-10-21
Type
invention
Location
Orcas Island, Washington (ACM SOSP 2007)