begriffs on database

Daniel Abadi DBMS Musings

A tour through hybrid column/row-oriented DBMS schemes (link)
Distinguishing Two Major Types of Column-Stores (link)
The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL (link)
Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff (link)
If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance. (link)
Why MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, and Riak will only let you perform transactions on a single data item (link)
Distributed consistency at scale: Spanner vs. Calvin (link)
NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner (link)
Partitioned consensus and its impact on Spanner’s latency (link)
It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit (link)
Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels (link)
Correctness Anomalies Under Serializable Isolation (link)
The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees (link)
Overview of Consistency Levels in Database Systems (link)
An explanation of the difference between Isolation levels vs. Consistency levels (link)
Introducing SLOG: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff (link)