Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy: In distributed systems theory, CALM presents a result that delineates the frontier of the possible.

The article discusses the theorem known as Consistency As Logical Monotonicity (CALM) as related to distributed big data systems in computing. It discusses the concept of confluence, provides a proof sketch, and the Bloom computer programming language.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 63; no. 9; pp. 72 - 82
Main Authors: HELLERSTEIN, JOSEPH M., ALVARO, PETER
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2020
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