期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2016
卷号：39
期号：1
页码：2
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：For decades the database community has looked at consistent data replication and distribution – most often inthe context of the transactions offering the isolation and atomicity properties. The proliferation of distributedand replicated database systems, be it within a cloud, across data centres, or in mobile environments, has led toa rich research literature offering manyfold solutions to distributed transaction management and replica control.In the March Issue 2015 of the IEEE Bulletin, I invited experts in this area, mainly from the database community,to present their views and work on data consistency in the cloud, with a focus on transaction management. Incontrast, this issue aims in giving an insight into how other research communities address the challenges ofdata consistency as this is such a cross-cutting concern that requires solutions from many areas of computerscience: distributed systems, distributed algorithms, storage systems, operating systems, computer architectureand programming language, to name a few.
