Challenges to adopting stronger consistency at scale

Phillipe Ajoux, Nathan Bronson, Sanjeev Kumar, Wyatt Lloyd, Kaushik Veeraraghavan

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Abstract

There have been many recent advances in distributed systems that provide stronger semantics for geo-replicated data stores like those underlying Facebook. These research systems provide a range of consistency models and transactional abilities while demonstrating good performance and scalability on experimental workloads. At Facebook we are excited by these lines of research, but fundamental and operational challenges currently make it infeasible to incorporate these advances into deployed systems. This paper describes some of these challenges with the hope that future advances will address them.

Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS 2015 - Warth-Weiningen, Switzerland
Duration: May 18 2015May 20 2015

Conference

Conference15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS 2015
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityWarth-Weiningen
Period5/18/155/20/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Information Systems

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