papoc22

Bilateral Anti-Entropy for Eventual Consistency

In PaPoC, May 2022.

Rebecca Bilbro and Benjamin Bengfort and Pete Keleher

Abstract:
Eventually consistent systems are often more cost-effective to implement and maintain than their strongly consistent cousins. Gossip-based anti-entropy methods can be used to improve the consistency of such systems. However, ob- servational data suggests that such improvements come at the cost of perennial data egress, significantly mitigating savings in a geo-replicated context. This paper presents ob- servations collected from an eventually consistent system deployed in production clusters across the US, Germany, and Singapore. A bilateral anti-entropy process facilitates data synchronization for an application accessed globally and around-the-clock. Replication metrics such as latency, conflict, and the duration and productivity of anti-entropy sessions seem to indicate that it is possible to quantify trade- offs between consistency and visibility latency such that staleness can be not only bounded, but fine-tuned.

@inProceedings{papoc22,
	title = "Bilateral Anti-Entropy for Eventual Consistency",
	author = "Rebecca Bilbro and Benjamin Bengfort and Pete Keleher",
	booktitle = {PaPoC},
	month = {May},
	year = {2022},
}

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