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