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  • Commutative Data Types Ease Distributed Data Management
  • Sep 2013
  • Nmp

    CITI@DI Researcher Nuno Preguiça delivered the opening keynote on Cloud Data Management at MUSEPAT 2013, S Petersburg, August, 2013. Preguiça with Shapiro (INRIA) and colleagues have recently introduced Commutative Replicated Data Types, a development that is deserving lots of attention in the community.

    CRDTs offer an effective technique to implement highly available distributed data objects as found in large scale cloud applications (such as e.g., a shoping cart in an e-commerce web app) .