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Apple open-sources FoundationDB

FoundationDB is a distributed datastore, designed from the ground up to be deployed on clusters of commodity hardware. These clusters scale well as you add machines, automatically heal from hardware failures, and have a simple API. The key-value store supports fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. That’s the…

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Atomic Commit in SQLite (2007)

An important feature of transactional databases like SQLite is "atomic commit". Atomic commit means that either all database changes within a single transaction occur or none of them occur. With atomic commit, it is as if many different writes to different sections of the database file occur instantaneously and…

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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3

Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…