You can read the paper that inspired the FaunaDB transaction protocol here: http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod12.pdf http://cs.yale.edu

You can read the paper that inspired the FaunaDB transaction protocol here: http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod12.pdf http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1... Or if you want a very concise description, see slide 13 from Daniel Abadi's presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/abadid/the-power-of-determinism-in-database-systems https://www.slideshare.net/abadid/the-power-of-determinism-i...