GentleRain: Cheap and scalable causal consistency with physical clocks

Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SOCC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Du, Jiaqing ^a   Iorgulescu, Cəlin ^a   Roy, Amitabha ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal consistency; Distributed consistency; Geo replication; Key value stores

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; VISIBILITY;

CAUSAL CONSISTENCY; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; DISTRIBUTED CONSISTENCY; EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY; GEO-REPLICATION; KEY-VALUE STORES; REPLICATED DATA; THROUGHPUT IMPROVEMENT;

CLOCKS;

EID: 85118317036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2670979.2670983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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