Tag: Research

• Scaling Out without Partitioning

  Todd Hoff mentions Hyder – Scaling Out without Partitioning. Hyder is  a research database at Microsoft, in which the database is the log, no partitioning is required, and the database is multi-versioned. Basically a shared Flash device for the logs: For transaction execution, each server has a cache of the last committed state. That cache…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Nov 29, 2010

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• The problems with ACID

  Danial Abadi throws a lengthy post at the DB world: The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL, introducing an even longer paper that they’re going to present at this months VLDB2010 in Singapore: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems. This is good stuff, basically argueing that the reason people…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Sep 2, 2010

  Technology