Thursday, March 25, 2021

My thoughts on the data mesh

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The concept of a "data warehouse" has been around for a long time. A really, really long time. The term started being used in the ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

It's time to rethink how we share data on the Web

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The world wide web (WWW) has had an extraordinary impact on our day-to-day lives. An enormous amount of information is available to any part...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Introducing SLOG: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff

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This post provides an overview of a new technology from my lab that was recently published in VLDB 2019 . In short: SLOG is a geographicall...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

An explanation of the difference between Isolation levels vs. Consistency levels

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(Editor's note: This post is  cross-posted on Fauna's blog, where Daniel Abadi serves as an adviser . Fauna is is a serverless, cl...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Overview of Consistency Levels in Database Systems

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Database systems typically give users the ability to trade off correctness for performance. We have spent the previous two posts in this s...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees

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The ease of writing an application on top of infrastructure that guarantees consistency can not be overstated . It’s just so much easier to ...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Correctness Anomalies Under Serializable Isolation

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Most database systems support multiple isolation levels that enable their users to trade off exposure to various types of application a...
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