Yes, there IS a paper! Check out Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems. FaunaDB uses Calvin with some changes to allow more typ

Yes, there IS a paper! Check out Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems. FaunaDB uses Calvin with some changes to allow more types of transactions, and to improve fault tolerance. :) http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod12.pdf http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...