Enabling Lightweight Transactions with Precision Time
Pulkit A. Misra, Jeffrey S. Chase, Johannes E. Gehrke, Alvin R. Lebeck · 2017
Distributed transactional storage is an important service in today's data centers. Achieving high performance without high complexity is often a challenge for these systems due to sophisticated consistency protocols and multiple layers of abstraction. In this paper we show how to combine two emerging technologies---Software-Defined Flash (SDF) and precise synchronized clocks---to improve performance and reduce complexity for transactional storage within the data center.