ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties that guarantee that database transactions are processed reliably.
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Can You Drop Consistency from ACID?
In his book "An Introduction to Database Systems" C.J.Date wrote a chapter about the ACID principles called "Dropping ACID". In this chapter he calls Correctness(Consistency) "essentially meaningless" and the other principles at most "a…
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Google Cloud Spanner UNIQUE Index Consistency
As far as I understand Google Cloud Spanner is globally consistent and also fast.
Let's say I have a table with a unique username field.
User A in USA inserts user johndoe to a US Spanner node
User B in China inserts user johndoe to a Chinese…
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