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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...

This paper is from Pat Helland, the apostate philosopher of database systems, overall a superb person, and a good friend of mine. The paper appeared this week at CIDR'24. (Check out the program for other interesting papers). The motivating question behind this work is: "What are the asymptotic limits to scale for cl...