Computer Science · Databases & Data Systems
A topic within Databases & Data Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Fay Chang et al.
Describes a sparse, distributed, sorted map indexed by row, column and timestamp, built to scale to petabytes without the fixed schema a relational database requires.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Brian F. Cooper et al.
Offers a relaxed per-record timeline consistency model instead of full serialisability, arguing that most web applications read and write one record at a time and do not need the stronger guarantee to work correctly.