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Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal?
This paper is from Pat Helland, the apostate philosopher of database systems, overall a superb person, and a good friend of mine. The paper...
In the rest of the paper, keep in mind that, an OLTP system is defined as a domain-specific application using a RCSI (READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT ISOLATION) SQL database to provide transactions across many concurrent users. I liken this to the miscellaneous manifesto or how instead of neatly organizing/allocating everything a place (which inevitably fails, requiring incessant re-orgs), embracing the messiness and using a search engine to get to information quickly. An owner closed for new business only accept worker requests for snapshot reads in their rectangle of key & time ranges, proposed updates, and notifications of transaction outcome.
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