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What is Eventual Consistency

Chapter 69
Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
Paradigm that allows a replicated system to be temporarily inconsistent, while ensuring that eventually the system will agree on and converge to a state that is strongly consistent.
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Data Replication Support for Collaboration in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments
João Barreto (INESC-ID/Technical University Lisbon, Portugal) and Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID/Technical University Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch069
Abstract
We analyze state-of-the art solutions, discussing their strengths and weaknesses along three main effectiveness dimensions: (i) faster strong consistency, (ii) with less aborted work, while (iii) minimizing both the amount of data exchanged between and stored at replicas; and identify open research issues.
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