Version Vectors Are Not Vector Clocks

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Carlos Baquero. "Version Vectors Are Not Vector Clocks." haslab.wordpress.com, July 2011. Archived at perma.cc/7PNU-4AMG

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Version Vectors are not Vector Clocks | HASlab

Most people still confuse Version Vectors and Vector Clocks. Well, I did confuse them for several years. In fact they look the same and the update rules are almost the same. Both of these mechanisms are practical ways of capturing causality in distributed systems. Causality (in distributed systems) is an abstract concept, can was formalized in 1978…

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