A. Jesse Jiryu Davis • 5/23/2024

Review: Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle

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This article analyzes a VLDB research paper titled 'Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle' from Alibaba Cloud. It explains the concept of timestamp oracles used for monotonic IDs in distributed databases, compares them to alternatives like Lamport clocks, and details the paper's proposed fault-tolerant service designed to improve availability over systems like TiDB-PD.

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