Reading Group

  • Reading Group. RMWPaxos: Fault-Tolerant In-Place Consensus Sequences

    ·

    Placeholder Icon

    Quick Summary In the last reading group discussion, we talked about RMWPaxos. The paper argues that under some circumstances, log-based replication schemes and replicated state machines (RSMs), like Multi-Paxos, are a waste of resources. For example, when the state is small, it may be more efficient to just manage the state directly instead of managing…

    Read More

  • Ocean Vista: Gossip-Based Visibility Control for Speedy Geo-Distributed Transactions

    ·

    Placeholder Icon

    Ocean Vista On Wednesday we had a presentation and discussion of the Ocean Vista (OV) replication and distributed transaction protocol. OV works in the WANs, where each region has all data-partitions, and transactions can originate in any region. OV separates replication from transaction execution, by making replication conflict-free with a FastPaxos-inspired protocol. For the transaction…

    Read More