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An advantage (or disadvantage?) Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website. OceanStore Papers [All Papers: Topical] Paxos algorithm. Consensus protocols are the basis for the state machine approach to distributed computing, as suggested by Leslie Lamport[2] and surveyed by Fred Schneider.[3] The state machine approach is a technique for converting an algorithm into a fault-tolerant, distributed implementation.
Ad-hoc techniques may leave important cases of failures unresolved. The principled approach proposed by Lamport et al. ensures all cases are handled safely. The Paxos protocol was first published in 1989 and named after a fictional legislative consensus system used on the Paxos island in Greece.[4] It was later published as a journal article in 1998.[5] The Paxos family of protocols includes a spectrum of trade-offs between the number of processors, number of message delays before learning the agreed value, the activity level of individual participants, number of messages sent, and types of failures.
The topic predates the protocol. Client Acceptor (Voters) Proposer Learner Leader Non-triviality Safety Liveness(C;L) Paxos made live: an engineering perspective. Bigtable: A distributed storage system for structured data. BibTeX Years of Citing Articles Bookmark OpenURL Abstract Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Citations.
Dynamo: amazon’s highly available key-value store. BibTeX @INPROCEEDINGS{DeCandia07dynamo:amazon’s, author = {Giuseppe DeCandia and Deniz Hastorun and Madan Jampani and Gunavardhan Kakulapati and Avinash Lakshman and Alex Pilchin and Swaminathan Sivasubramanian and Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels}, booktitle = {IN PROC.
SOSP}, year = {2007}, pages = {205--220}, publisher = {} OpenURL Abstract Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. Citations Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications - Stoica, Morris, et al. - 2001 Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system - Lamport - 1978 Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location, and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems - ROWSTRON, DRUSCHEL Oceanstore: An architecture for global-scale persistent storage - Kubiatowicz, Bindel, et al. - 2000.
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