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Definitions of Eventual Consistency, ACID and Dynamo. Looks at datacenters, partitions and dataloss.
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[AI summary] The discussion revolves around the complexities and nuances of various consistency models and isolation levels in distributed systems, including serializability, linearizability, sequential consistency, and eventual consistency. Key points include the differences between these models, their implications for system behavior, and the challenges in defining and comparing them. The conversation also touches on SQL isolation levels, the ANSI SQL-99 standard, and the philosophical debates around the terminology and semantics of these concepts. The participants emphasize the importance of understanding these models in the context of specific system designs and the need to avoid ambiguous interpretations of standards and specifications.
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In the previous blog post, we saw how a transaction isolation strategy built on multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) does not implement the serializable isolation level. Instead, it implements a weaker isolation level called snapshot isolation. In this post, I'll discuss how that MVCC model can be extended in order to achieve serializability, based on work...
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