Martin Kleppmann explores how to ensure data consistency in distributed systems, especially in systems that don't have an authoritative leader. He explains how to sync data between a phone and a ...

Designing ATM networks and other distributed systems requires making smart trade-offs between consistency and availability. Seeking to help system designers make those trade-offs, a group of ...

Over the past 10 years we've seen a proliferation of non-re­lational database systems, usually based around a distributed, fault-tolerant architecture with flexible consistency models-databases such ...

Microsoft has added a third alternative consistency model, consistent prefix, in Cosmos DB. Consistent prefix adds predictability to the speed of eventual consistency.

For distributed database systems, the theorem led to RDBMS usually choosing consistency via ACID, with NoSQL databases favoring availability following the BASE paradigm.

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...