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Greef: The world is becoming more transactional, from servers to serverless, and per second billing. You used to buy a server every three years or rent dedicated by the month, then an instance by the hour, and now every second there's a serverless transaction. In the same way from coal to clean energy, our energy so...

This paper appeared in VLDB 2019. It discusses the tunable consistency models in MongoDB and how MongoDB's speculative execution model and data rollback protocol enable this spectrum of consistency levels efficiently.MotivationApplications often tolerate short or infrequent periods of inconsistency, so it may not ma...

A search engine is a software that can search for any text in the data that has been indexed for full text. While there are public search engines like Google and Bing, we are not talking about them in this blog, but of softwares that would allow you to search for text in your own data. Think of a this kind of search...