Exploring Distributed System Theory: Availability and Consistency
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A senior Alibaba technical expert introduces the #algorithms that overcome limits proposed in the CAP theoremIn distributed systems, availability and consistency are the most basic prevailing issues, for which reason their relationship has been the subject of extensive study. The well-known CAP theorem defines their relationship as mutually exclusive in large-scale distributed environments, where the third factor in such systems, partition tolerance, cannot be treated as a variable. In an attempt to circumvent these issues, the Turing-award winning Paxos Protocol has since been proposed to maximize the efficiency of availability and consistency in such systems. To further address issues prevalent in this the Paxos algorithm, the ZAB Protocol was subsequently developed from an original (...)
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