Project Sherlock

Report

2011

A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types

Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero & Marek Zawirski

Shows that if every operation on a replica is designed to commute with every other, replicas converge automatically without coordination, giving a whole family of data types that are safe under eventual consistency.

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Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.