December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 36m
English
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Chapter 24
Clock-Bound Wait
Wait to cover the uncertainty in time across cluster nodes before reading and writing values so that values can be correctly ordered across cluster nodes.
Problem
Consider a key-value store where values are stored with a timestamp to designate each version. Any cluster node that handles a client request will be able to read the latest version using the current timestamp at the request processing node.
In Figure 24.1, the ...