Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

When developing peer-to-peer applications on distributed ledger technology (DLT), a crucial
decision is the selection of a suitable DLT design (eg, Ethereum), because it is hard to …

Amazon Aurora is a relational database service for OLTP workloads offered as part of
Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this paper, we describe the architecture of Aurora and the …

Anomaly detection is a significant problem that has been studied in a broader spectrum of
research areas due to its diverse applications in different domains. Despite the usage of …

Maintaining the highest levels of availability for content providers is challenging in the face
of scale, network evolution and complexity. Little, however, is known about failures large …

In episode 217 of Software Engineering Radio, host Charles Anderson talks with James
Turnbull, a software developer and security specialist who's vice president of services at …

To minimize network latency and remain online during server failures and network partitions,
many modern distributed data storage systems eschew transactional functionality, which …

We consider the problem of separating consistency-related safety properties from availability
and durability in distributed data stores via the application of a" bolt-on" shim layer that …

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

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