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Succinct on Apache Spark: Queries on Compressed RDDs

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Rachit Agarwal

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tl;dr Succinct is a distributed data store that supports a wide range of point queries (e.g., search, count, range, random … Continue reading →

Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems

Peter Bailis, Alan Fekete, Michael Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica
VLDB 2015 (PVLDB Vol. 8 No. 3), Aug. 2015.

Tags: coordination, databases, scalability, transactions

Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

Peter Bailis, Alan Fekete, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica
ACM SIGMOD Conference 2014, Jun. 2014.

Tags: acid, availability, consistency, non-blocking, ramp, scalability, transactions

Transactions, High Availability, and Scalability: Friends or Foes?

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Peter Bailis

Many of today’s data-intensive applications at scale require always-on operation and low-latency query execution, which has led to quite a … Continue reading →

Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations

Peter Bailis, Aaron Davidson, Alan Fekete, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica
VLDB 2014, Sep. 2014.

Tags: consistency, databases, high availability, scalability, transactions