February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
21h 56m
English
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Index
Symbols
- 3FS (distributed filesystem), Distributed Filesystems
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- aborts (transactions), Transactions, Atomicity
- cascading, No dirty reads
- in two-phase commit, Two-Phase Commit
- performance of optimistic concurrency control, Performance of serializable snapshot isolation
- retrying aborted transactions, Handling errors and aborts
- abstraction, Layering of cloud services, Simplicity: Managing Complexity, Data Models and Query Languages, Summary
- accidental complexity, Simplicity: Managing Complexity
- accountability, Responsibility and Accountability
- accounting (financial data), Summary, Advantages of immutable events
- Accumulo (database), Data locality for reads and writes, Column compression
- ACID properties (transactions), The Meaning of ACID
- atomicity, Atomicity, Single-Object and Multi-Object Operations
- consistency, Consistency, Maintaining integrity in the face of software bugs
- durability, Making B-trees reliable, Durability
- isolation, Isolation, Single-Object and Multi-Object Operations
- acknowledgments (messaging), Acknowledgments and redelivery
- active/active replication (see multi-leader replication)
- active/passive replication (see leader-based replication)
- ActiveMQ (messaging), Message brokers, XA transactions, Message brokers compared to databases
- ActiveRecord (object-relational mapper), Object-relational mapping, Handling errors and aborts
- activity (workflows) (see workflow engines)
- actor model, Distributed actor frameworks, Event-driven architectures and RPC
- (see also event-driven architecture)
- ad ...
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