replication

  • Reading Group. Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna.

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    This week we looked at “Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna.” This is the second Anna paper. The first one introduces Anna Key-Value store, and the second paper talks about various “cloud-native” improvements. The presentation by Michael Whittaker is available here: Short Summary Anna is an eventual-consistent key-value data store, where each value is a…

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  • A Few Words about Inconsistent Replication (IR)

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    Recently I was reading the “Building Consistent Transaction with Inconsistent Replication” paper. In this paper authors use inconsistently replicated state machine, but yet they are capable of creating a consistent transaction system. So what is Inconsistent Replication (IR)? In the previous posts I summarized Raft and EPaxos. These two algorithms are used to achieve consensus…

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