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Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

One of the fundamental open challenges in computer science is effective data storage. The socio-economic value and scale of information increases day by day and researchers have been working to ...

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The advance of Big Data analytics and the need for real time results in application environments such as IoT is driving the need for a new approach to storage. Startups in this space have a particular ...

While Apache Kafka is slowly introducing KRaft to simplify its approach to consistency, systems built on Raft show more promise for tomorrow’s hyper-gig workloads. Consensus is fundamental to ...

Aerospike Database 5’s multi-site clustering eliminates the trade-off between data consistency and high performance for large-scale, always-on, globally distributed transaction systems In today’s ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

In contrast to centralized systems, distributed software systems add an entire new layer of complexity to the already difficult problem of software design. In spite of that, for a variety of reasons, ...