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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — mentioned by atombender

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:38:40 GMT

My understanding (possibly flawed) is that Stonebraker isn't directly involved anymore. The original idea that he worked on with the DBOS people at MIT and Stanford was very different and much, much more ambitious, which is why the name DBOS seems a little out of place now. The original idea was much closer to a "database OS". Here [1] is the paper, which proposes that "To improve the scalability, security and operability of OSes, we propose a data-centric architecture: designing the OS to explicitly separate data from computation, and centralize all state in the OS into a uniform data model.…

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — mentioned by intermerda

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:09:28 GMT

I remembered reading about the DBOS paper a while back - https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112. Is this an evolution of that research work? If so, how did an OS for databases morph into a workflow orchestration service?

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — mentioned by sdave

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 04:20:35 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112 The link is referenced in the article.

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — mentioned by Jtsummers

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:18:01 GMT

Sounds like that's actually their plan for the first pass (reading their papers now): > While the DBMS engine will need some basic resource management functionality to bootstrap its execution, this could be done over a cluster of servers running current OSs, and eventually bootstrapped over the new DBOS. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — HN submission

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:23:03 GMT

DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — mentioned by rubiquity

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:09:22 GMT

DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112 Even if a bit impractical in some regrards, I think an operating system/cloud that you interact with like a database is something we should aspirationally strive for. We're spending too much time gluing things together and not enough time being productive. Databases are great at tracking and describing resources (much better than YAML) and stored procedures that are like Lambdas would be neat.

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — HN submission

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:03:18 GMT

DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System

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DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System — HN submission

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:30:21 GMT

DBOS: A Proposal for a Data-Centric Operating System

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