Thursday, April 6, 2017

Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin

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Introduction In 2012, two research papers were published that described the design of geographically replicated, consistent, ACID complia...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Why MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, and Riak will only let you perform transactions on a single data item

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(This post is co-authored by Daniel Abadi and Jose Faleiro and cross-posted on Jose's blog ) NoSQL systems such as MongoDB, Cassand...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Is Upstart the right way to get college student start-ups funded?

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In 2010, the movie “ The Social Network ” was released, which has had a tremendously positive effect on the computer science department at Y...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

IEEE Computer issue on the CAP Theorem

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Due to Hurricane Sandy, Yale gave me a day off from teaching today and I have finally been able to get to a few things on my "to-do...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Defending Matt Welsh’s 'Startup University' Post

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A week ago, Matt Welsh released a blog post  on attaching a startup incubator to a university in order to create a funding model for some ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance.

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(This post is coauthored by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Abadi ) In the last decade, database technology has arguably progressed furthest...
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