Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball

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Douglas B. Terry. "Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball." Microsoft Research, Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-137, October 2011. Archived at perma.cc/F4KZ-AR38

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Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball - Microsoft Research

Some cloud storage services, like Windows Azure, replicate data while providing strong consistency to their clients while others, like Amazon, have chosen eventual consistency in order to obtain better performance and availability. A broader class of consistency guarantees can, and perhaps should, be offered to clients that read shared data. During a baseball game, for […]

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