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Part 4: How reality forces us to bring time back
Part 3: How distributed systems track causality
Part 2: If timestamps lie, what actually determines order?
Part 1: Why timestamps lie and ordering events isn’t as simple as it looks
Transactions Before we look into distributed transactions, it is important we understand transactions. What is a transaction? A transaction is a set of operations executed as a single, indivisible unit of work on a database ensuring ACID (Atomicity, ...
Introduction Database Management Systems (DBMS) use different storage structures to organise and access data. Three of the most popular storage structures are Heap-Organised Tables, Hash-Organised Tables, and Index-Organised Tables. In this post, we’...
Understanding the basics of string matching