fawind/actordb-readings

Actor Database Systems readings and related work

Paper

Actor Database Systems: A Manifesto [Shah 2017]

• Overview and tenets of actor DB systems

Anna: A KVS For Any Scale [Wu 2018]

• HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072

Indexing in an Actor-Oriented Database [Bernstein 2017]

• This paper discusses an implementation of an actor indexing feature for Orleans by using actors on top of Orleans itself. This is a useful design pattern, since many types of functionality can be directly encoded through actors, thus creating database abstractions without having to change the internals of Orleans. The preliminary code is available at: https://github.com/OrleansContrib/Orleans.Indexing
• Conference Slides

Transactions for Distributed Actors in the Cloud [Eldeeb 2016]

Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems [Shah 2018]

Geo-Distribution of Actor-Based Services [Bernstein 2017]

• This paper discusses a geo-replication model for Orleans. The feature is being integrated into Orleans: dotnet/orleans#948. In the issue discussion, you can also find links to early branches.

Projects

JustinDB

• Distributed Key-Value Storage built on top of Scala/Akka

Blog: Actorbase or "the persistence chaos"

• Github Projects: rcardin/actorbase, SweeneyThreads/ActorbaseSummary, ScalateKids/Actorbase

AkkaDynoDB

• Dynamo like distributed database built using Akka Cluster

ActorDB

• SQL DB, one table per actor

Other

Transactions in Orleons

• http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/Documentation/2.0/Transactions.html (tech report: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/transactions-distributed-actors-cloud-2/)

Raft Consensus Protocol