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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.7
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61652
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6165/
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Bernardi, Giovanni ; Gotsman, Alexey

Robustness against Consistency Models with Atomic Visibility

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Abstract

To achieve scalability, modern Internet services often rely on distributed databases with consistency models for transactions weaker than serializability. At present, application programmers often lack techniques to ensure that the weakness of these consistency models does not violate application correctness. We present criteria to check whether applications that rely on a database providing only weak consistency are robust, i.e., behave as if they used a database providing serializability. When this is the case, the application programmer can reap the scalability benefits of weak consistency while being able to easily check the desired correctness properties. Our results handle systematically and uniformly several recently proposed weak consistency models, as well as a mechanism for strengthening consistency in parts of an application.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bernardi_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6165,
  author =	{Giovanni Bernardi and Alexey Gotsman},
  title =	{{Robustness against Consistency Models with Atomic Visibility}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-017-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{59},
  editor =	{Jos{\'e}e Desharnais and Radha Jagadeesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6165},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61652},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Robustness, Replication, Consistency models, Transactions}
}

Keywords: Robustness, Replication, Consistency models, Transactions
Collection: 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 24.08.2016

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