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Send your queries to Stefano J. Attardi
(Check out his website while you're at it!)

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This one’s for you, Cliff.

Don’t forget to lean into it.

The Reading List

The list is also available as a bibtex file if you’re into that sort of thing.
(Thanks, Guillaume Gens!)

The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics

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Access Path Selection in an RDBMS

by P. Griffiths Selinger & al.

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Amazon’s Dynamo

by Giuseppe DeCandia & al.

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BASE: an Acid Alternative

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The Byzantine Generals Problem

by Leslie Lamport & al.

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The CAP Theorem

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Cassandra — A Decentralized Structured Storage System

by Avinash Lakshman & Prashant Malik

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Codd’s Relational Model

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On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services

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The End of an Architectural Era

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Eventually Consistent

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Google’s BigTable

by Fay Chang & al.

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Google’s Chubby

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Google’s MapReduce

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The Graph Traversal Pattern

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Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems

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CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control

by Mihai Letia, Nuno Preguiça & Marc Shapiro

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Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion

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The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)

by Patrick O'Neil & al.

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Paxos Made Simple

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The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing

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Stasis: Flexible Transactional Storage

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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

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Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve the Partial Ordering

by Colin J. Fidge

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The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations

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A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model

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Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems

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PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform

by Brian F. Cooper & al.

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Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB

by Brian F. Cooper & al.

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