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Spanner is a rare example of a distributed database that supports externally consistent distributed transactions. Many other databases either choose not to implement distributed transactions at all, or opt for weaker consistency models because of the performance cost involved. In this post, we'll learn how Google's TrueTime API enables it to provide this guarantee at a good performance.
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In this post, understand the different concepts of consistency as applied to distributed databases, as well as some issues with the conversation of consistency.
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For many years serializability was referred to as the gold standard of database isolation levels. It was the highest isolation level offered in the vast majority of commercial database systems (some highly widely-deployed systems could not even o...
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Of course! The biggest news at VMware Explore this year is the announcement of vSphere 8, which is scheduled to be generally available in September. This release comes with a plethora of new features, capabilities, and even architectural changes, some of which I'll be talking about in this and other related posts.
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