"Optimistic replication" (PDF), Yasushi Saito and Marc Shapiro, ACM Computing Surveys, Mar 2005. http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf http://www.ysaito.com/survey.

"Optimistic replication" (PDF), Yasushi Saito and Marc Shapiro, ACM Computing Surveys, Mar 2005. http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf Fantastic paper, a really good overview of all things sync and replication - vector clocks, matrix clocks, you name it.