Everything about Append-only

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Append-onlyA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Continuous queries over append-only databasesCited 86 times
4. Go sideways: Log-structured file systemA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Shingled magnetic recordingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Continuous queries over append-only databases

  Douglas Terry, David Goldberg, David Nichols · 1992 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 86 citations

• Attested append-only memory

  Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker · 2007 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 77 citations

• A Broadcast-Only Communication Model Based on Replicated Append-Only Logs

  Christian Tschudin · 2019 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 6 citations

• EASL: Enhanced append-only skip list index for agile block data retrieval on blockchain

  Jared Newell, Sabih ur Rehman, Quazi Mamun · 2025 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 5 citations

• Append-only Authenticated Data Sets based on RSA accumulators for transparent log system

  Qiang Tong, Long Yin, Yulong Liu · 2025 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 4 citations

• Ternary tree enhanced append-only skip list: A high-performance blockchain data search index

  Jared Newell, Sabih ur Rehman, Quazi Mamun · 2026 · Information Sciences · 3 citations

• Buffer Management With Append-Only Data Isolation for Improving SSD Performance

  Joonyong Jeong, Gyeongyong Lee, Jungkeol Lee · 2021 · IEEE Access · 2 citations

• 312. [A. I. a.] I append an elementary and direct method of finding assuming only the formula for the sum of an A.P.

  S. Andrade · 1910 · The Mathematical Gazette · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• BibleBible · 1200
• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983
• Medium of ContingencyReza Negarestani, Elie Ayache · 2011
• 📕Pamphlets - homoeopathicWilliam A. Gardiner, O. B. Gause · 1847
• A treatise on the law of homicide in the United StatesFrancis Wharton · 1855
• Labor the only true source of wealthTheophilus Fiske · 1837
• The Pope Of Rome And The Popes Of The Oriental Orthodox ChurchTondini de Quarenghi, Cesare, 1839-1907 · 1871

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