locality

  • Reading Group. Prescient Data Partitioning and Migration for Deterministic Database Systems

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    In the 75th reading group session, we discussed the transaction locality and dynamic data partitioning through the eyes of a recent OSDI’21 paper – “Don’t Look Back, Look into the Future: Prescient Data Partitioning and Migration for Deterministic Database Systems.”  This interesting paper solves the transaction locality problem in distributed, sharded deterministic databases. The deterministic…

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  • Paper Summary: Bolt-On Global Consistency for the Cloud

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    This paper appeared in SOCC 2018, but caught my Paxos attention only recently. The premise of the paper is to provide strong consistency in a heterogeneous storage system spanning multiple cloud providers and storage platforms. Going across cloud providers is challenging, since storage services at different clouds cannot directly talk to each other and replicate the…

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