Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?

The article examines computer memory storage systems. The design and use of distributed key-value systems in client/server computing is examined. Eventually consistent storage systems, which read and write non-overlapping subsets of data to update replicas, are examined. The consistency form lineari...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 38 - 45
Main Authors:	GOLAB, WOJCIECH, RAHMAN, MUNTASIR R., AUYOUNG, ALVIN, KEETON, KIMBERLY, LI, XIAOZHOU (STEVE)
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2014
Subjects:	Distributed computing Client/server computing Computer network architectures Distributed shared memory Distributed tracking Multiuser computer systems Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)
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