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| | CAP theorem and databases: definitions of ACID, Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable vs. available and partition.
| | timilearning.com
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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.
| | christophermeiklejohn.com
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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.
| | planetscale.com
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| B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.