Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...
Existing database systems employ an eager transaction processing scheme – that is, upon receiving a transaction request, the system executes all the operations entailed in running the transaction ...
If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...