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 vCorfu: A cloud-scale object store on a shared log
Month: May 2017
Corfu: A distributed shared log
Corfu: A distributed shared log Balakrishnan et al., ACM TOCS, 2013 (If you experience any difficulty in accessing the pdf in the above link please let me know, it should be open for you on the ACM DL. UPDATE, many readers are still seeing a paywall for the above paper link, here's an alternative open … Continue reading Corfu: A distributed shared log
The design, implementation and deployment of a system to transparently compress hundreds of petabytes of image files for a file storage service
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 The design, implementation and deployment of a system to transparently compress hundreds of petabytes of image files for a file storage service
the morning paper 