From: Slavik Krassovsky (viatk_at_windows.microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 17:37:26 PST
In this 1997 paper Fox et al discuss an approach to the design of highly
scalable (the experiments in that are were performed by the authors and
results are quite impressive), highly available and relatively
inexpensive service. The author's contribution to the science is the
demonstration that such service could be quite successfully provided
using a collection of commodity computers organized in clusters. In fact
the authors provide a framework for building such services and discuss 2
real implementations - Hotbot and TranSend.
It is very fortunate we discussed sequential consistency and
weaker-than-sequential models on the last lecture. Here we see similar
simplification going from ACID to BASE. I wonder if it's possible to go
be with even weaker consistency model.
Overall, this architecture looks very reasonable - I am curious if web
mega-stores employ something like that.
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