Don't Settle for Eventual

Lloyd, W., Freedman, M. J., Kaminsky, M., & Andersen, D. G. (2011). Don't Settle for Eventual: Scalable Causal Consistency for Wide-Area Storage with COPS. SOSP '11, 401-416.

Type

Conference paper

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2011

DOI

10.1145/2043556.2043593

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2043556.2043593

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Mechanisms

• Causal-Consistency Protocol
  • The classic misuse is assuming "causal" implies "latest," then being surprised when a perfectly legal read returns old data.

    This sourceCausal+ consistency preserves dependency order while permitting reads of older versions rather than requiring the latest value.

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