[Cloud Computing] Dynamo (a highly available key-value storage system)
What is the paper trying to do? This paper is trying to “present the design and implementation of Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system”, that is used in Amazon’s core services. By sacrificing consistency under certain failure scenarios, Dynamo is able to reach an “always-on” experience in terms of availability. This allows it to be successful in handling server failures, data center failures and network partitions. Additionally, Dynamo is incrementally scalable and can scale up and down while it is up and running. Dynamo uses a combination of technologies, including extensive use of object versioning, application-assisted conflict resolution, data partitioning, replication via consistent hashing. Additionally, during updates, quorum-like technique and a decentralized replica synchronization protocol is used to maintain consistency amongst replicas. What do you think is the contribution of the paper? The main contribution of this paper is “the evaluation of how differ...