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Eventually consistent: not what you were expecting?

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 3
March 2014
99 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2566590
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  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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