title: Must Read/ Favorite Papers in Database and related fields
body: <p>Please recommend what you consider to be the most important or just favorite papers in Database Management, Information Systems, Data Mining etc.</p>
  
  <p>Here are couple that I think are important milestones:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>What Goes Around Comes Around - Michael Stonebraker, Joseph M. Hellerstein</p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf" rel="nofollow">Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store  - Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan et al</a> </p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html" rel="nofollow">Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data - Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean et al.</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html" rel="nofollow">MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters - Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat</a></p></li>
  <li><p>Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services</p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dewitt/includes/paralleldb/cacm.pdf" rel="nofollow">Parallel database systems: the future of high performance database systems - Jim Gray</a></p></li>
  <li><p>A Formal Model of Crash Recovery in a Distributed System - Skeen, D.  Stonebraker, M</p></li>
  </ol>