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Do coherence and transactional isolation mean the same?
About coherence vs consistency, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model says
Coherence deals with maintaining a global order in which writes to a
single location or single variable are seen ...
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Database consistency for a distributed system
I'm working on a phone call monitoring project. The aim is to have one row in the calls table for each ongoing call. Each call instance may be updated by many different servers/threads as more ...
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Distributed database algorithm
I have a need for a distributed data store, where existing solutions may not work as the computers these will be running on will be extremely resource limited, for instance 64-128MB RAM. Plus, as a ...
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Is caching data between independent but interacting systems okay?
We have two products let call them X and Y. Product-X is established and has numerous clients over continents whereas Product-Y's development was started a few years ago and it has yet to enjoy any ...
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Using a distributed system as an alternative to disk storage
So, one of the differences between "main memory" and disk storage is durability -- the data on hard disks will stay accessible and unaffected even if the host machine crashes or loses power. One can ...
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Sequencing distributed tasks with a distributed DB
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I have two separate processes, WriteIt() and ReadIt(). One creates records, and the other processes the records in a DB cluster.
Once WriteIt() creates a record, it queues a ReadIt() task ...
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what are the things to take in consideration when designing a database that likely will be distributed after some time? [closed]
We are small start-up now, we don't have a DBA.
if our project succeed, it will have a lot of data that will likely need to be distributed over several machines.
So we want to make that step easier, ...
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