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Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design

Daniel J. Abadi, Yale University Abstract The CAP theorem’simpact on modern distribute databa sesystem design is more limited than is often perceived. Another tradeoff—between consistency and latency —has had a more direct influence on...

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Eugene Kogan, Hongyi Li, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David...