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by abadid 8y ago
Thanks. I added a parenthetical remark to the post to indicate that I was talking about DynamoDB's default settings.
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by abadid 8y ago
By controversial, I mean that in the database research community (where I spend most of my time), there is significant disagreement about global consensus vs. Spanner's choice of partitioned consensus.
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by abadid 8y ago
Yes, Spanner is quite unusual in the distributed database world in how hardware is a pretty important part of their solution. Other systems may claim important integrations with hardware, but for Spanner, the architecture really relies on p
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by abadid 8y ago
I'm the author of that post. I'm happy to respond to comments on the post on this thread for the next several hours. You can also leave comments on the post itself, and I will respond there at any time.
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Analysis of strengths/weaknesses of Apache Arrow(dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
16 points by abadid 9y ago|1 comments
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Hazelcast and the Mythical PA/EC System(dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
12 points by abadid 9y ago|1 comments
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by abadid 10y ago
Yes Ariel, it was you who told me this! But I agree with jhugg that it was an obvious choice based on the VoltDB architecture.
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by abadid 10y ago
"The case for determinism in database systems" paper (which described the technology that became Calvin) was written in VLDB 2010. At least one VoltDB developer told me that command logging came from a talk we gave about this pape
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by abadid 10y ago
Sorry about that. As Evan said -- that sentence was based on something he told me. The post has now been fixed. My apologies.
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by abadid 10y ago
I said in my post: "influenced the design of several modern “NewSQL” systems" --- I'm not aware of other production implementations of Calvin. But VoltDB's command logging feature came directly from Calvin. So basically
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by abadid 10y ago
I can't comment on Google's decision here. I don't see any technical reason why they can't support client-side interactive transactions. But I'm happy to comment on technical points I made in the post ...
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by abadid 10y ago
As the author of the post, I just wanted to say that I'll be online for the next few hours and I'm happy to answer questions about my post on this thread here.