RG Special Session

  • Reading Group Special Session: Scalability and Fault Tolerance in YDB

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    YDB is an open-source Distributed SQL Database. YDB is used as an OLTP Database for mission-critical user-facing applications. It provides strong consistency and serializable transaction isolation for the end user. One of the main characteristics of YDB is scalability to very large clusters together with multitenancy, i.e. ability to provide an isolated user environment for…

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  • Reading Group Special Session: Fast General Purpose Transactions in Apache Cassandra

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    Modern distributed databases employ leader-based consensus protocols to achieve consistency, entailing certain trade-offs: typically either a scalability bottleneck or weak isolation. Leaderless protocols have been proposed to address these and other shortcomings of leader-based techniques, but these have not yet materialized into production systems.  This paper outlines compromises entailed by existing leaderless protocols versus leader-based…

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  • Reading Group Special Session: Distributed Transactions in YugabyteDB

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    When: May 11th at 12:00 pm EST Who: Karthik Ranganathan. Karthik Ranganathan is a founder and CTO of YugabyteDB, a globally distributed, strongly consistent database. Prior to Yugabyte, Karthik was at Facebook, where he built the Cassandra database. In this talk, Karthik will discuss Yugabyte’s use of time synchronization and Raft protocol along with some…

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  • Reading Group Special Session: Building Distributed Systems With Stateright

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    This talk is part of the Distributed Systems Reading Group. Stateright is a software framework for analyzing and systematically verifying distributed systems. Its name refers to its goal of verifying that a system’s collective state always satisfies a correctness specification, such as “operations invoked against the system are always linearizable.” Cloud service providers like AWS…

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