Building a BFT JSON CRDT

Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations

linux-insides

Issue #296

11/22/2022

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Building a BFT JSON CRDT

Published: 16 November 2022
Tags: data structures, database, distributed systems, rust

CRDTs are a family of data structures that are used to replicate data across multiple computers. They are designed to avoid conflicts when people write data to the same place.
Some highlights:

  • CRDTs mathematically guarantee that an application can safely update their local state without needing to coordinate with all of its peers
  • Traditional databases focus on a property called linearizability, which guarantees that all operations behave as if executed on a single copy of the data
  • CRDTs can be made fault tolerant by solving a problem called the Byzantine Broadcast


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Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations

Published: 26 October 2022
Tags: database, optimization, sql

Jonathan Lewis discusses the Or Expansion Transformation, a feature of the Oracle Optimizer, and how it can be used to improve query performance.
Some highlights:

  • The optimizer is able to take a single query block and transform it into a UNION ALL of 2 or more query blocks which can then be optimized and run separately
  • "A critical difference between Concatenation and Or-Expansion is that the OR’ed access predicates for the driving table must all be indexed before Concatenation can be used"
  • The or expansion allows queries to be optimized a lot more, but requires a lot more time for actual optimization to take place


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linux-insides

Published: 31 July 2022
Tags: c, linux, os

0xAX and some other contributors have made an online book on the Linux kernel and its inner workings. It's too long for me to add any highlights of use.


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