American computer science

Daniel Abadi

American computer scientist and database researcher, professor at the University of Maryland and previously at Yale. He worked on column-store systems and on the architecture of distributed databases, and in 2012 proposed PACELC, an extension of CAP that adds the trade-off systems actually face most of the time: when there is no partition, consistency must be paid for in latency.

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The CAP Theorem

A system spread across several machines can give you consistent answers, or always answer at all. The network makes you choose.

2000 (conjectured), 2002 (proved)23 min read