Adam ProutCategorizing How Distributed Databases Utilize Consensus AlgorithmsDistributed databases generally fall into two camps when it comes to architectures for maintaining high availability (HA) [1]. Both…9 min read·Jan 22, 2024----
Adam ProutDistributed SQL Databases And The Costs of Being DistributedMuch has been written about the advantages of distributed SQL databases (i.e., Spanner, Big Query, Snowflake) compared to the older single…8 min read·Jan 16, 2024----
Adam ProutWhich ANSI SQL Isolation Level is Required to be ACID Compliant (or Does MongoDB Actually Support…Many databases make loud claims about supporting ACID transactions, especially some NoSQL systems which traditionally only supported weaker…4 min read·Jan 12, 2024----