On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
> Translating from Patentese to English, I think it basically says "This is > the we solve the Consensus Problem" (one of the standard problems in > theoretical distributed computing). > > Thanks for the pointers. > That sounds like a good translation to me. The maths gets complicated to put it mildly, but I know Dr Yeturu's work is in some part at least based on Paxos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_algorithm ). AIUI we've got the only implementation of this model that can guarantee the consistency and ordering of transactions; important when you need your repositories to remain identical on every site! Ian -- Ian Wild Chief Solutions Architect WANdisco, Inc.
