Rethinking eventual consistency

• DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465339
• Publication Date: 2013-06-25T19:13:21Z
• Authors: Philip A. Bernstein; Sudipto Das
• Keywords: Eventual consistency; Distributed database; Isolation; Weak consistency

There has been a resurgence of work on replicated, distributed database systems to meet the demands intermittently-connected clients and disaster-tolerant databases that span data centers. Many weaken criteria for replica-consistency or isolation, in some cases add new mechanisms, improve partition-tolerance, availability, performance. We present framework comparing these help architects navigate through this complex design space.