This (fantastic) paper is cited in the Google Megastore paper [1] and we actually use the term "entity group" in our product [2] indirectly because of it. Pat Helland is always worth reading; thanks to the submitter for the reminder.<p>[1] <a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36971.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/articles/balancing-strong-and-eventual-consistency-with-google-cloud-datastore/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/articles/balancing-s...</a>
I have always liked this paper. Pat Helland is a fountain of ideas. Another good one is "Immutability Changes Everything." <a href="http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf</a>
2007 ... updated version here <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3025012" rel="nofollow">http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3025012</a>