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Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

One of the fundamental open challenges in computer science is effective data storage. The socio-economic value and scale of information increases day by day and researchers have been working to ...

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While Apache Kafka is slowly introducing KRaft to simplify its approach to consistency, systems built on Raft show more promise for tomorrow’s hyper-gig workloads. Consensus is fundamental to ...

In contrast to centralized systems, distributed software systems add an entire new layer of complexity to the already difficult problem of software design. In spite of that, for a variety of reasons, ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Palo Alto, Calif., April 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hazelcast, Inc., the company that enables instant action on all data, announced the latest release of its unified real-time data platform, a core ...

Every organization seeking to make sense of big data must determine which platforms and tools, in the sea of available options, will help them to meet their business goals. Answering the following ...