Month: May 2017

vCorfu: A cloud-scale object store on a shared log

~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments
vCorfu: A cloud-scale object store on a shared log Wei et al., NSDI'17 vCorfu builds on the idea of a distributed shared log that we looked at yesterday with CORFU, to construct a distributed object store. We show that vCorfu outperforms Cassandra, a popular state-of-the-art NoSQL store, while providing strong consistency (opacity, read-own-writes), efficient transactions, ... Continue Reading

The design, implementation and deployment of a system to transparently compress hundreds of petabytes of image files for a file storage service

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The design, implementation, and deployment of a system to transparently compress hundreds of petabytes of image files for a file storage service Horn et al., NSDI'17 When I first started reading, I thought this paper was going to be about a new compression format Dropbox had introduced for JPEG images. And it is about that, ... Continue Reading