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Re:FaunaDB 2.5.4 by dsergeyev on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:55AM (#19311320)
Hey I am curious what does it use in place clocks for safety and quorum? Is there a paper
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Re:FaunaDB 2.5.4 by aphyr on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:59AM (#19311358)
Yes, there IS a paper! Check out Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems. FaunaDB uses Calvin with some changes to allow more types of transactions, and to improve fault tolerance. :)

http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...

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Re:FaunaDB 2.5.4 by evanweaver on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:01AM (#19311374)
See our blog post as well: https://fauna.com/blog/consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-tr...
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