Internet-scale distributed systems often replicate data at multiple geographic locations to
provide low latency and high availability, despite node and network failures. Geo-replicated …

Wi-Fi based fingerprinting systems, mostly utilize the Received Signal Strength Indicator
(RSSI), which is known to be unreliable due to environmental and hardware effects. In this …

With the rapid development of distributed transactional databases in recent years, there is
an urgent need for fair performance evaluation and comparison. Though there are various …

Most products at ByteDance, eg, TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao, naturally generate massive
amounts of graph data. To efficiently store, query and update massive graph data is …

A single-master database has limited update capacity because a single node handles all
updates. A multi-master database potentially has higher update capacity because the load is …

A distributed database utilizing the wide-spread edge computing servers to provide low-
latency data access with the serializability guarantee is highly desirable for emerging edge …

In this paper we study mechanisms that permit to augment the FaaS middleware with
support for Transactional Causal Consistency (TCC). At first glance, it may seem that offering …

A conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is an abstract data type, with a well defined
interface, designed to be replicated at multiple processes and exhibiting the following …

Shared-nothing, distributed databases scale transactional and analytical processing over a
large data volume by spreading data across servers. However, static sharding of data across …

Social media platforms deliver fresh personalized content by performing a large number of
reads from an online data store. This store must be optimized for read efficiency, availability …