The potential dangers of causal consistency and an explicit solution

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bailis, Peter ^a   Fekete, Alan ^b   Ghodsi, Ali ^a,c   Hellerstein, Joseph M ^a   Stoica, Ion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Causality; Convergence; Data dependencies; Explicit causality; Scalability; Semantic knowledge; Weak consistency

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; CONVERGENCE; DATA DEPENDENCIES; EXPLICIT CAUSALITY; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE; WEAK CONSISTENCY;

SCALABILITY; SEMANTICS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84870505762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2391229.2391251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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