Probabilistically bounded staleness for practical partial quorums

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 776-787

  Bailis, Peter ^a   Venkataraman, Shivaram ^a   Franklin, Michael J ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph M ^a   Stoica, Ion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DATA CONSISTENCY; DATA STORE; EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY; PRODUCTION WORKLOADS; QUORUM SYSTEMS; REAL TIME; REPLICATED DATA;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84863755817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14778/2212351.2212359     Document Type: Article

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