3 papers
cs.DC2019
Distributed Transactional Systems Cannot Be Fast
Diego Didona, Panagiota Fatourou, Rachid Guerraoui +2
We prove that no fully transactional system can provide fast read transactions (including read-only ones that are considered the most frequent in practice). Specifically, to achiev…
cs.DC2018
Distributed Transactions: Dissecting the Nightmare
Diego Didona, Rachid Guerraoui, Jingjing Wang +1
Many distributed storage systems are transactional and a lot of work has been devoted to optimizing their performance, especially the performance of read-only transactions that are…
cs.DC2018
Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe?
Diego Didona, Rachid Guerraoui, Jingjing Wang +1
Causal consistency is an attractive consistency model for replicated data stores. It is provably the strongest model that tolerates partitions, it avoids the long latencies associa…