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Inconsistent thoughts on database consistency | DeBrie Advisory
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A Certain Tendency Of The Database Community
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| | [AI summary] The article challenges the traditional centralized database model, arguing that eventual consistency better reflects the physical world and proposing a new computational model where all participants are primary sources of truth.
| | timilearning.com
MIT 6.824: Lecture 13 - Spanner
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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.
| | architecturenotes.co
Relational Databases Explained
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| | How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.
| | pgdba.org
Time and relative dimension in space - PostgreSQL DBA
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| [AI summary] This technical article explains the Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) and transaction isolation levels in PostgreSQL, including how XIDs work and common concurrency issues.