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The CAP theorem is too simplistic and too widely misunderstood to be of much use for characterizing systems. Therefore I ask that we retire all references to the CAP theorem, stop talking about the CAP theorem, and put the poor thing to rest Martin Kleppmann In 2000, Eric Brewer introduced the CAP Conjecture during his keynote address Towards Robust Distributed Systems at the Principles of Distributed Computing conference. Brewer posited that a distributed system cannot achieve Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance simultaneously.
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[AI summary] An introductory post from a blog series detailing the implementation of the Raft distributed consensus algorithm in the Go programming language.
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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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In this post, I am going to discuss RocksDB. RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store system developed by Facebook. It was originally forked from LevelDB which was created by Google. According to Wikipedia: RocksDB is a high performance embedded database for key-value data. It is a fork of Google's LevelDB optimized to exploit many
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