Computer Science · Distributed Systems
A topic within Distributed Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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The Google File System
Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff & Shun-Tak Leung · 2003
Argues that component failure should be treated as the normal case rather than the exception, and designs a file system around relaxed consistency…
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Chain Replication for Supporting High Throughput and Availability
Robbert van Renesse & Fred B. Schneider · 2004
Arranges replicas in a chain so that strong consistency and high throughput stop being a trade-off.
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Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff & Shun-Tak Leung
Argues that component failure should be treated as the normal case rather than the exception, and designs a file system around relaxed consistency and chunk-level replication instead of POSIX semantics.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyRobbert van Renesse & Fred B. Schneider
Arranges replicas in a chain so that strong consistency and high throughput stop being a trade-off.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyBarbara Liskov & James Cowling
Restates the original 1988 primary-backup replication protocol in a form directly comparable to Paxos, arguing it solves the same problem with a simpler view-change mechanism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy