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Large Scale and Big Data
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Large Scale and Big Data

by Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Gaber
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
636 pages
23h 13m
English
Auerbach Publications
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330 Large Scale and Big Data
partition. Therefore, and since partitions are rare, designers should consider other
tradeoffs that are, arguably, more important. A tradeoff that is more inuential, is
the latency-consistency tradeoff. Insuring strong consistency in distributed systems
requires a synchronized replication process where replicas belong to remote nodes
that communicate through a network connection. Subsequently, reads and updates
may be costly in terms of latency. This tradeoff is CAP-Independent and exists per-
manently. Moreover, Abadi makes a connection between latency and availability.
When latency is higher than a specic timeout the system becomes unavailable.
Similarly, the system is available if the latency is smaller tha ...
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ISBN: 9781466581500