Declared causality in wide-area replicated storage

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn 0, Issue 0, 2014, Pages 2-7

  Lady, Kyle ^a   Kim, Minkyong ^b   Noble, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; databases; developers; distributed systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

BEST EFFORT; DEVELOPERS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY; GLOBAL SCALE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REPLICATED STORAGE; SHOW THROUGH;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84932141487     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDSW.2014.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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