Databases at 14.4Mhz

Failing at scaling When we started building FoundationDB five years ago, my co-founder and I wrote down our big hairy goals for the distributed key-value database we were dreaming up: Fast, strict ACID transactions Even during failure scenarios Even across multiple keys on different nodes Read latencies below 500 microseconds Commit (write) latencies below 2 milliseconds Scalability to 100,000,000

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2. Proxies check transaction isolation using the resolvers. 3. Proxies send transactions that pass isolation checks to the transaction logs