Over the years, different meanings have been associated with the word consistency in the
distributed systems community. While in the'80s “consistency” typically meant strong …

Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

By offering storage services in several geographically distributed data centers, cloud
computing platforms enable applications to offer low latency access to user data. However …

Choosing a cloud storage system and specific operations for reading and writing data
requires developers to make decisions that trade off consistency for availability and …

Application programmers increasingly prefer distributed storage systems with strong
consistency and distributed transactions (eg, Google's Spanner) for their strong guarantees …

We present the first scalable, geo-replicated storage system that guarantees low latency,
offers a rich data model, and provides “stronger” semantics. Namely, all client requests are …

Deep Learning Recommender Systems (DLRSs) need to update models at low latency, thus
promptly serving new users and content. Existing DLRSs, however, fail to do so. They …

Minimizing coordination, or blocking communication between concurrently executing
operations, is key to maximizing scalability, availability, and high performance in database …

Geographically distributed systems often rely on replicated eventually consistent data stores
to achieve availability and performance. To resolve conflicting updates at different replicas …

GentleRain is a new causally consistent geo-replicated data store that provides throughput
comparable to eventual consistency and superior to current implementations of causal …