Martin Kleppmann explores how to ensure data consistency in distributed systems, especially in systems that don't have an authoritative leader. He explains how to sync data between a phone and a ...

Research team led by Limin Xiao revolutionizes metadata management in distributed file systems with a novel consistency framework that reduces synchronization delay and enhances scalability ...

Neo4j is not yet a fully distributed graph database, even with 4.0. But with the new multiple database feature – which essentially allows users to shard a single graph database into multiple ...

At Amazon, the need to maintain an “always-on” transactional system was at odds with the consistency model of the RDBMS. Amazon developed its own “eventually consistent” DBMS—Dynamo—which is now ...

Until now, customers building globally distributed applications faced difficult trade-offs when selecting a database: Existing solutions offered either low latency without strong consistency, or ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...