This talk’s main purpose is to introduce protocols of distributed transactions invented in the last few years, which can be implemented on client side on any cloud storage supporting compare-and-set.

This talk’s aimed at application developers using NoSQL/cloud databases and/or sharded SQL databases.

The audience will learn that:

distributed transactions are not limited to 2PC (two-phase commit);
transactions can be added on the application level on any database, including cloud databases, NoSQL solutions, sharded SQL databases;
different protocols of distributed transactions (2PC, Percolator, RAMP) have different tradeoffs (isolation level, behaviour in case of conflicting transactions);
transactions are not free, you have to pay for them (increased delay, increased bill when using cloud database).

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