THE ARCHITECTURE OF SERVERLESS DATA SYSTEMS

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The future of cloud data services may focus on serverless, multi-tenant data architectures. This article examines different systems like OLTP databases, OLAP, cloud data warehouses, and event streaming systems. The author notes the growth in serverless multi-tenant (MT) systems, such as Google's BigQuery and Amazon's DynamoDB, and explores emerging ones like Neon and CockroachDB. There are challenges unique to serverless MT systems, such as latency, consistency, heat management, and the importance of high resource utilization.