Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design

Abadi, D. (2012). Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design: CAP is Only Part of the Story. IEEE Computer, 45(2), 37-42.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2012

DOI

10.1109/mc.2012.33

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2012.33

Cited from

computer_science, synthesized

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Primes

• Transaction
  • Failure mode: durability guarantees are weaker than documented; data loss on failure surprises applications designed assuming full ACID durability
• Trilemma
  • The scoping move is PACELC: it scopes the impossibility to the partition case and names the no-partition mode separately (latency versus consistency), so the system is described by two regimes rather than one false trinity.

    This sourceIntroduces PACELC, scoping CAP to partitions and naming the latency-versus-consistency trade in the no-partition case.

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