In contrast, weaker models such as eventual consistency accept temporal discrepancies between replicas, thereby enhancing read/write performance and system availability.

Database systems form the cornerstone of modern information technology, enabling the organised storage, management and retrieval of data across a vast range of applications. These systems ...

Alluxio addresses the same set of issues for file system data. In 2012, researchers at the UC Berkeley APM Lab open-sourced a memory-centric, fault-tolerant virtual distributed storage system ...

Microsoft believes synthetic DNA could be the next big leap in long-term data storage, with just one gram of DNA capable of storing 215 petabytes of data for up to 2,000 years.

Innovative cloud solutions expert Somtochi Onyekwere recently presented at QCon London 2025, unveiling Corrosion—Fly.io's advanced open-source distributed system. By leveraging CRDTs and Rust ...