Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

It is common sense that cloud-native applications (CNA) are intentionally designed for the
cloud. Although this understanding can be broadly used it does not guide and explain what …

Blockchains are an emerging digital technology that combine cryptography, data
management, networking, and incentive mechanisms to support the checking, execution …

The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three
desirable properties. However, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize …

The memory coherence problem in designing and implementing a shared virtual memory on
loosely coupled multiprocessors is studied in depth. Two classes of algorithms, centralized …

Data replication is a key technology in distributed systems that enables higher availability
and performance. This article surveys optimistic replication algorithms. They allow replica …

Big Data Systems (BDSs) are an emerging class of scalable software technologies whereby
massive amounts of heterogeneous data are gathered from multiple sources, managed …

Beyond Bitcoin has emerged from endless discussions between Hanna and Miklos that go
back to 2014. Back then,“cryptocurrency” really meant “Bitcoin” and it appeared that it might …

This is the third edition of “Distributed Systems.” In many ways, it is a huge difference
compared to the previous editions, the most important one perhaps being that we have fully …

The blockchain technology witnessed a wide adoption and a swift growth in recent years.
This ingenious distributed peer-to-peer design attracted several businesses and solicited …