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Aerospike 4.0, Strong Consistency, and Jepsen

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Date Published
Author
Brian Bulkowski
Word Count
910
Company Posts That Month
4
Language
English
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Summary

Aerospike has successfully validated its claims of strong consistency through a series of tests conducted by Kyle Kingsbury, which included running existing Jepsen tests and creating custom "nemeses" to challenge the system. The tests showed that Aerospike does not lose data or allow stale or dirty reads even under high concurrency, challenging network conditions, and crashes. High performance was also demonstrated with session consistency and full linearizability, achieving comparable read and write latency to its AP mode counterpart. Additionally, issues such as node crashes and clock skew were addressed through feature updates and improvements. The results provide strong evidence for Aerospike's ability to handle demanding data environments with strong consistency guarantees.

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