Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations - Bailis et. al 2014. Since yesterday we looked at the Boom Hierarchy, it seemed fitting today to take a selection from the BOOM project (no relation). Thus earning me the Basil Brush award ;) What a great paper this is, I have so many highlights and annotations on … Continue reading Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations
Tag: Consistency
Consistency in datastores and distributed systems
Consistency, Availability, and Convergence
Consistency, Availability, and Convergence - Mahajan, Alvisi, and Dahlin, 2014 We've seen in earlier papers that the classic definition of eventual consistency allows some unhelpful models such as all nodes becoming consistent due to returning a constant value. Mahajan et al. close these loopholes with a definition of convergence that matches our commonsense expectations. Then … Continue reading Consistency, Availability, and Convergence
the morning paper 