Computer Science · Databases & Data Systems

Distributed Databases

A topic within Databases & Data Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.

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Paper2011

Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services

Jason Baker et al.

Partitions data into small databases replicated with synchronous Paxos, arguing that most web applications only need strong consistency within a narrow entity group and can trade the rest for scale.

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Paper2013

F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

Jeff Shute et al.

Reports replacing Google's sharded MySQL AdWords backend with a distributed database offering full SQL and ACID transactions, arguing the operational cost of manual sharding, not consistency itself, was the real obstacle to scale.

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Reading on Distributed Databases

Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interactive Services

F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

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