Pat Helland

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Pat Helland is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Pat Helland has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Pat Helland's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (7 papers). Pat Helland is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (7 papers). Pat Helland collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. Pat Helland's co-authors include Patrick O’Neil, Jim Gray, Dennis Shasha, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Nabil Hachem, Stavros Harizopoulos, David G. Campbell and W. W. Wilcke and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers and ACM SIGMOD Record.

In The Last Decade

Pat Helland

34 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The dangers of replication and a solution

1996 602 citations Jim Gray, Pat Helland et al. profile →
The end of an architectural era: (it's time for a complete rewrite)

2007 379 citations Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden et al. Very Large Data Bases profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pat Helland United States	12	1.4k	624	210	96	70	41	1.5k
Malte Schwarzkopf United States	13	1.1k 0.8×	963 1.5×	280 1.3×	132 1.4×	57 0.8×	29	1.2k
Stavros Harizopoulos United States	15	1.3k 1.0×	777 1.2×	315 1.5×	171 1.8×	210 3.0×	31	1.4k
Derrick Kondo France	16	884 0.6×	740 1.2×	197 0.9×	114 1.2×	24 0.3×	34	1.0k
Ranjita Bhagwan United States	18	965 0.7×	342 0.5×	113 0.5×	165 1.7×	66 0.9×	40	1.2k
Robert Griesemer United States	8	700 0.5×	449 0.7×	165 0.8×	159 1.7×	62 0.9×	13	841
Peter Alvaro United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	760 1.2×	166 0.8×	230 2.4×	150 2.1×	48	1.2k
Shankar Pasupathy United States	13	1.3k 0.9×	923 1.5×	194 0.9×	347 3.6×	81 1.2×	22	1.5k
Małgorzata Steinder United States	22	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 2.1×	113 0.5×	219 2.3×	27 0.4×	52	1.6k
Shadi Ibrahim France	14	604 0.4×	523 0.8×	123 0.6×	89 0.9×	29 0.4×	39	751
Raju Rangaswami United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	700 1.1×	409 1.9×	170 1.8×	50 0.7×	64	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Pat Helland

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pat Helland

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Pat Helland. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Pat Helland. The network helps show where Pat Helland may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pat Helland

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pat Helland. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pat Helland based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pat Helland. Pat Helland is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Helland, Pat. (2021). Don't Get Stuck in the "Con" Game. Queue. 19(3). 16–35. 1 indexed citations

2.

Helland, Pat. (2020). Data on the outside versus data on the inside. Communications of the ACM. 63(11). 111–118.

3.

Helland, Pat. (2019). Extract, shoehorn, and load. Communications of the ACM. 62(7). 32–33.

4.

Helland, Pat. (2019). Space time discontinuum. Communications of the ACM. 63(1). 54–56. 5 indexed citations

5.

Helland, Pat. (2018). Mind your state for your state of mind. Communications of the ACM. 61(10). 47–54. 2 indexed citations

6.

Helland, Pat. (2017). Life beyond distributed transactions. Communications of the ACM. 60(2). 46–54. 8 indexed citations

7.

Helland, Pat. (2016). The singular success of SQL. Communications of the ACM. 59(8). 38–41. 1 indexed citations

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Helland, Pat. (2016). The Power of Babble. Queue. 14(4). 5–14.

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Helland, Pat. (2016). Life Beyond Distributed Transactions. Queue. 14(5). 69–98. 11 indexed citations

10.

Helland, Pat. (2016). Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants. Queue. 14(2). 5–15. 1 indexed citations

11.

Helland, Pat & Don Haderle. (2013). Engagements: Building Eventually ACiD Business Transactions.. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research. 2 indexed citations

12.

Helland, Pat. (2013). Condos and clouds. Communications of the ACM. 56(1). 50–59. 13 indexed citations

13.

Helland, Pat. (2012). Idempotence is not a medical condition. Communications of the ACM. 55(5). 56–65. 15 indexed citations

14.

Helland, Pat. (2012). Condos and Clouds. Queue. 10(11). 20–35. 3 indexed citations

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Helland, Pat. (2011). If you have too much data, then 'good enough' is good enough. Communications of the ACM. 54(6). 40–47. 20 indexed citations

16.

Stonebraker, Michael, Samuel Madden, Daniel J. Abadi, et al.. (2007). The end of an architectural era: (it's time for a complete rewrite). Very Large Data Bases. 1150–1160. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Helland, Pat. (2007). Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion.. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research. 132–141. 49 indexed citations

18.

Weber, Wolf-Dietrich, et al.. (1997). The Mercury Interconnect Architecture. 98–107. 43 indexed citations

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Gray, Jim, Pat Helland, Patrick O’Neil, & Dennis Shasha. (1996). The dangers of replication and a solution. 173–182. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

20.

Helland, Pat. (1985). Transaction Monitoring Facility.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 8(5). 11–18. 7 indexed citations

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