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causal consistency: a standalone construct

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a memory consistency model in which all processes see causally related writes in the same order while concurrent writes may be seen in different orders.

In distributed systems, causal consistency refers to a memory consistency model in which all processes see causally related writes in the same order while concurrent writes may be seen in different orders. This meaning comes from Ahamad (1995) in Distributed Computing.[1]

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consistency4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs memory consistency model1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct memory6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Ahamad, M., Neiger, G., Burns, J. E., Kohli, P., & Hutto, P. W. (1995). Causal memory: definitions, implementation, and programming. Distributed Computing, 9(1), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01784241

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